Products in development at Contineo Robotics, Sykesville, Maryland, take the motto “to serve and protect” to a whole new level. While the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Revolutionizing Prosthetics (RP) programs robotic arms aspire to restore function to persons with upper-limb mobility impairments and amputations, Stuart Harshbarger’s fledgling company puts a different spin on the DARPA principles he helped develop while serving as program manager and systems integrator for phase one of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL), Laurel, Maryland-led RP 2009 (RP2009) program. In 2006, JHU APL received a $30.4 million contract to begin the first phase of the RP2009 program, which culminated in the development of the Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL).
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