One version of a modern mechanical polycentric knee. It weighs 1.37 pounds, is 4.12 inches high. Its lower bases is 2x2 inches, and upper 3x2.5 inches. Officials from the Ohio Willow Wood Company are expected to bring several types of artificial knee mechanisms to the signing for display purposes.
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In a unique arrangement, technologies for foot and knee prostheses are being jointly developed by two nuclear weapons laboratories on opposite sides during the Cold War, Sandia and the Russian laboratory known as Chelyabinsk 70, in Snezhinsk, about 900 miles southeast of Moscow. Ohio Willow Wood, located in Mount Sterling, near Columbus, will define the requirements for parts and perform final laboratory and clinical testing. The Russians will design a titanium housing, and Sandia robotics researchers Mark Vaughn and Dave Kozlowski will design the knee's internal workings and electronics. Sandia and the Russian nuclear lab will split their half of the funding. Someone in this world loses a limb to a landmine explosion every 20 minutes.