Open Prosthetics: Jonathan Kuniholm
- Resource Type
- RTM Publication
- Publish Date
- 11/01/2015
- Author
- Jonathan Kuniholm
- Topic
- Open Innovation and Contests
- Associated Event
- Publication
As founder of StumpWorx, Jonathan Kuniholm is working to create an open-source design community to spur innovation in prosthetics.
I’m a mechanical and biomedical engineer and industrial designer. I was working in a nanotechnology lab at Duke University when my Marine Corps reserve unit was called up to go to Iraq. I was injured in Iraq, and after my return to school, switched the focus of my engineering work to prosthetic arms. I have spent the last several years as a designer and consumer advocate, and I have been fairly outspoken on the science and technology policy that surrounds prosthetic arms.