Originally doing business as iWalk, BionX Medical Technologies Inc (BiOM), with Founders having close ties to MIT has been engaged in developing the PowerFoot One, an ankle-foot device providing active amputees with near-normal gait. The Powerfoot One has two powerful microprocessors and six environmental sensors evaluate and adjust ankle position, stiffness, damping and power thousands of times a second. Control algorithms generate human-like force while traversing level ground, slopes and stairs, providing active amputees with near-normal gait and lower energy expenditure compared to state-of-the-art passive prosthetics. In March 2017 it was announced that Germany-headquartered prosthetics manufacturer Ottobock HealthCare is to acquire the Massachsetts firm.
