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Enter the studio

A fitting lasts an hour. The limb is worn for a life. Most design still starts with the socket. Soma starts with the day around it. The walk home. The stairs. The afternoon the fit changes, and the room you were fitted in is already behind you. This is a research studio for that missing day. The person first. Then the experience. Then the design. Build for the life beyond the limb.

AI concept: a person with a carbon-fiber and titanium prosthetic leg in a sunlit architectural passage

PROSTHETIC CARE × BIONIC POSSIBILITY

Build for the life
beyond the limb.

Every step has a story. Connect the lived experience, the changing fit and the next design decision.

Experience SOMA See a day unfold
PERSON → EXPERIENCE → DESIGNA working research studio
DISCOVER WHAT CHANGES AI concept imagery · research experienceSOMA / 01
01 / A DIFFERENT STARTING POINTDESIGNED AROUND PEOPLE

A limb is worn.
A life is lived.

The walk home. An afternoon on your feet. A conversation without thinking about your hand.

SOMA brings those moments into the design process. Explore what changes, question what it means, and preserve what the next fitting needs to know.

03Guided human journeys
07Research frontier demos
3D / 4DInspect form. Replay change.
A portable care history
02 / PUT THE DAY IN MOTIONINTERACTIVE PREVIEW

A fitting is a moment.
Understanding takes a day.

Move through a synthetic journey. See pressure, activity and reported discomfort in the same moment.

SYNTHETIC EXAMPLE / BELOW KNEE
The journey home

Walk from the station to home comfortably.

The front of the socket feels uncomfortable during the walk home.

Follow Maya’s full journey
ELAPSED TIME07:00Walk home
Normal pressure
72.8kPa
Volume change
-2.2%
Reported discomfort
3.3/ 10
Normal pressureShear magnitudekPa
0501000 min120 min240 min360 min480 min

Invented observations for learning. Changes that occur together do not establish a cause.

AI concept material study: woven carbon composite socket rim and a soft silicone interface
MATERIAL STUDY / 001Carbon composite × soft interface
AI concept image

FROM UNDERSTANDING TO EXPLORATION

Go beneath
the surface.

Inspect a conceptual assembly in 3D. Follow changing conditions in 4D. Compare a reference with a proposal, then decide what needs a physical test.

3D / Understand the assemblyExplore components, layers and design choices.
4D / Follow the conditionsSee the scenario evolve through time.
Enter the design bench
03 / THE NEXT INTERFACESSEVEN WORKING DEMONSTRATIONS

Possibility,
put to the test.

Touch. Adaptation. Shared control. Explore the ideas reshaping the relationship between a person and a prosthesis.

Each demo pairs an interactive example with its research source, assumptions and limits.

Explore the frontiers
01
Sensory return

Touch with a way home

Trace a fingertip signal through a conceptual sensory pathway.

02
Interface sensing

The forces you cannot see

Separate compression from sliding, and reveal the missing information.

03
Adaptive sockets

A fit that follows the day

Explore a bounded adjustment as limb volume changes.

04
Muscle interfaces

Movement in conversation

Follow the opposing signals of a coupled muscle pair.

05
Shared control

Help at the moment of contact

Compare assistance with a user command. Keep release in human hands.

06
Regional materials

One socket. Different jobs.

Investigate flexibility, support and relative mass by region.

07
Digital-twin concepts

A model that admits the unknown

Remove a channel and see what the model can no longer observe.

04 / A CONTINUOUS CARE STORYTHE PERSON STAYS AT THE CENTRE

What worked should
travel with you.

Carry the observations, questions and decisions into the next conversation.

AI concept: a woman with a below-knee prosthesis enjoying a contemporary art gallery with a friendTHE GOAL IS THE LIFE AROUND IT.AI concept scene
01

Understand the moment

Replay a guided example or bring your observations into the workspace.

02

Make the question reviewable

Link a concept revision to evidence, assumptions and a proposed test.

03

Keep the care memory

Record follow-up, preserve what worked and export a headed PDF or editable Markdown report.

Start a guided care journey
Ambition, with evidence.

SOMA is a research and learning prototype. Examples are synthetic; concept imagery and model outputs do not establish clinical benefit. No prosthetic hardware is connected.

THE RECORD

Hear the argument.
Then see it held still.

A film, a listening piece, four concept infographics, and an eighteen-slide briefing. The recording plays here. It is not offered as a download.

  1. 0127:01Bionics for the Lived Experience
  2. 02FilmThe Journey of the Fit
  3. 0304Interface infographics
  4. 0418Landscape slides
Enter the media room

YOUR NEXT QUESTION STARTS HERE

See the person.
Explore the possible.

Enter the SOMA studio

Begin with a guided example. Follow it all the way through.