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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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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.