mathoda.com » prosthetic arm http://mathoda.com the stories, poems, essays, biography, and projects of Ranjit S. Mathoda Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:16:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Dean Kamen’s nerve reading prosthetic smart arm http://mathoda.com/2008/05/dean-kamens-nerve-reading-prosthetic-smart-arm http://mathoda.com/2008/05/dean-kamens-nerve-reading-prosthetic-smart-arm#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 23:04:57 +0000 Ranjit Mathoda http://mathoda.com/?p=219 Dean Kamen and his group at DEKA are remarkable inventors. Their inventions include the Segway, a wheelchair that can go up stairs, and a water purification device.  They may have made their most amazing invention yet, a nerve reading prosthetic arm that can pick up a water bottle without squishing it:

Link: http://d6.allthingsd.com/20080529/deka/

The NY Times also has a story well worth reading, about how monkeys can control a prosthetic arm through a device implanted onto their nerves: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/science/29brain.html?em&ex=1212206400&en=312f177c2cb3fde2&ei=5087%0A

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