Thursday, July 22, 2010

Let's hear it for the boy, let's give the boy a haaaaaand

Thought controlled bionic prosthetic arm, developed by the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and funded by DARPA. Very cool. Steve Austin's entire overhaul only cost six million dollars. DARPA has just funded the designers an additional $35.6 million to begin testing with human subjects.

The arm has the same range of motion and weight as a typical human arm, with motion controlled by a neural interface, as well as sensory feedback. For quadriplegics, this could change everything.

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