LIMBER has delivered 32 prosthetic legs to 28 people, including four bilateral amputees, in three countries since it launched in 2020.
Pelz and De Vivo Nicoloso began this journey as structural engineering doctoral students in the Jacobs School of Engineering. LIMBER, for Limber Integrative Imaging Modeling Manufacturing for Bold Exoskeleton Research, started in 2016 in the research group of Falko Kuester, a professor in the Department of Structural Engineering. The project’s goal was to bring together imaging, modeling, simulation, testing and 3D-printing to democratize access to prosthetic care across the world. Pelz and De Vivo Nicoloso made the work part of their doctoral research and launched their startup at the same time.
They quickly developed deep ties with the university’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. Their…
