http://news.yahoo.com/advanced-prosthetic-arm-approved-us-market-195651785.html
"The development of the DEKA Arm System -- nicknamed the 'Luke' arm after Luke Skywalker in Star Wars -- was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)."
Fascinating! I love hearing about advances in prostheses, and this one looks like a major step in the right direction. I'm hoping they can have tactile feedback soon. That'll be a big leap for prosthetics and I'm sure one which will be appreciated by amputees.
Awesome!
Fascinating! I love hearing about advances in prostheses, and this one looks like a major step in the right direction. I'm hoping they can have tactile feedback soon. That'll be a big leap for prosthetics and I'm sure one which will be appreciated by amputees.
That is gonna be a hell of a Long way out... At least the way I think it would have to work... You'd have to stock it with nuero-receptors and link it to all the nerves, and get the combinations right, and... we'd be bettter off lab growing arms...
That is gonna be a hell of a Long way out... At least the way I think it would have to work... You'd have to stock it with nuero-receptors and link it to all the nerves, and get the combinations right, and... we'd be bettter off lab growing arms...Fascinating! I love hearing about advances in prostheses, and this one looks like a major step in the right direction. I'm hoping they can have tactile feedback soon. That'll be a big leap for prosthetics and I'm sure one which will be appreciated by amputees.
Right, but then what kind of cool Star Wars related name would you give it?
That is gonna be a hell of a Long way out... At least the way I think it would have to work... You'd have to stock it with nuero-receptors and link it to all the nerves, and get the combinations right, and... we'd be bettter off lab growing arms...Fascinating! I love hearing about advances in prostheses, and this one looks like a major step in the right direction. I'm hoping they can have tactile feedback soon. That'll be a big leap for prosthetics and I'm sure one which will be appreciated by amputees.
Right, but then what kind of cool Star Wars related name would you give it?
That is gonna be a hell of a Long way out... At least the way I think it would have to work... You'd have to stock it with nuero-receptors and link it to all the nerves, and get the combinations right, and... we'd be bettter off lab growing arms...Fascinating! I love hearing about advances in prostheses, and this one looks like a major step in the right direction. I'm hoping they can have tactile feedback soon. That'll be a big leap for prosthetics and I'm sure one which will be appreciated by amputees.
Right, but then what kind of cool Star Wars related name would you give it?
Bacta-Arms.
Jar-Arm Binks
Jar-Arm Binks
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The idea is a lot older that Star Wars
Remote handling arms, like those on research subs and for the handling of nuclear fuels are called "Waldos" after a character in a short story by Robert Heinlein.