Meta Mecha
Meta Mecha Metamaterial Prosthetic Liner by Xuerong Cai is a winner of the 2023 Iron A' Design Award in Cybernetics, Prosthesis and Implant Design.
Meta Mecha is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations.
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Meta Mecha is a personalized and medically compliant prosthetic socket liner that utilizes metamaterial, computational design, and 3D printing. The 3D printable mechanical metamaterials offer customization of the mechanical surfaces, making it easy and economical for users to update their prosthetic liner. Generated based on personalized medical requirements and 3D scanned residual limb data, the metamaterial prosthetic liner is 3D printed with elastic TPU. Meta Mecha offers a unique solution to the prosthetic field, combining computational design, metamaterial, and 3D printing.
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Meta Mecha by Xuerong Cai
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Metamaterial Prosthetic Liner
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Cybernetics, Prosthesis and Implant Design Award Winner in 2023.
Iron Winner
Meta Mecha Metamaterial Prosthetic Liner
Meta Mecha is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Meta Mecha is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Meta Mecha is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Winner Designer
Xuerong Cai
The project team consisted of four industrial designers from China: Cai Xuerong, Wu Yanyun, Pan Ruikun, Gonglongyu. After studying at Tongji University's College of Design and Innovation, they are committed to rethinking the future of the design industry through new computer technologies and building on this for sustainable and inclusive design. An educational exhibition based on the Meta Mecha project was shown in Shanghai Dyson Ideation Lab since February 2022. The project was awarded Top8 in 2022 James Dyson Award in China Region.
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Meta Mecha
Meta Mecha is dedicated to providing medically customized products.
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