Human Augmentation · Recorded milestone
Carbon-fibre running foot
Recorded year1984
Amputee engineer Van Phillips's Flex-Foot stores and returns energy like a tendon, letting leg amputees run and jump.
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- Bionic gamesRecorded · 2016enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.