When athletes suffer serious injuries to their knee ligaments, the road to recovery can be long, and some never return to the game. Understanding exactly how ligaments fail is essential to improving prevention and treatment, but studying these injuries in living people is difficult. Researchers have developed and validated a new robotic system that simulates natural knee movements with high precision using post-mortem human subject knees. By integrating advanced bone motion data from dynamic biplanar radiography, they were able to replicate motions like walking, running, jumping, and injury events to directly study ligament damage under controlled conditions. This advancement could unlock deeper insights into how and why knee injuries happen and bring us closer to better ways to keep athletes in the game. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲: lnkd.in/ePPncH8q 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆: A Robotic Clamped-Kinematic System to Study Knee Ligament Injury 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀: Ophelie Herve, Will Flanagan, Jake Kanetis, Bailey Mooney, Thomas Kremen, David R. McAllister, and Tyler Clites @UCLA @UCLAHealth @dgsomucla @UCLAMechAeroEng @BioEngUCLA @ThomasKremenMD @TylerClites 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁: lnkd.in/g6_6wwEu