Flex-Foot Cheetah
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flex-foot-cheetah-179-5254815
title:
Flex-Foot Cheetah
text:
The Flex-Foot Cheetah is a prosthetic human foot replacement developed by biomedical engineer Van Phillips, who had lost a leg below the knee at age 21; the deficiencies of existing prostheses led him to invent this new prosthesis. The Flex-Foot Cheetah and similar models are worn by Oscar Pistorius and other amputee athletes in the Paralympics and elsewhere. It is made from carbon fibre, and unlike all previous foot prostheses, it stores kinetic energy from the wearer's steps as potential energ
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wiki
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex-Foot_Cheetah
date created:
2012-09-06T21:32:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T08:46:20Z
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