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Todd Kuiken: A prosthetic arm that "feels"

Bioengineer — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:05:44 +0000

Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system -- improving motion, control and even feeling. Onstage, patient Amanda Kitts helps demonstrate this next-gen robotic arm.

Paralyzed Man Uses Thoughts Alone to Control Robot Arm

Bioengineer — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:19:57 +0000

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC describe in PLoS ONE how an electrode array sitting on top of the brain enabled a 30-year-old paralyzed man to control the movement of a character on a computer screen in three dimensions with just his thoughts.

Meet Rex: the bionic man

Bioengineer — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:36:46 +0000

Rex’s (short for robotic exoskeleton) creators say he is the most complete bionic man to date. Altogether, scientists can now replicate a good portion of the human body’s working parts, and research on much of the rest is already underway. Rex’s roboticists and facial inspiration (Meyer) was appeared with the bionic man in a documentary ("How to Build a Bionic Man" ) yesterday on British television Channel 4.

New generation bionics – wireless and touch-sensitive

Bioengineer — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:52:17 +0000

Other researchers are developing prosthetic skin which might wrap around a bionic limb and feed back sensory information to the nervous system, in theory enabling users to detect and feel objects.The current generation of bionic hands can pinch or grasp using two or more electrodes fitted inside the portion of the prosthetic which fits over […]

1st Woman With Bionic Arm

Bioengineer — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:46:32 +0000

Claudia Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person — and first woman — to receive a “bionic” arm, which allows her to control parts of the device by her thoughts alone. The device, designed by physicians and engineers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, works by detecting the movements of a chest […]