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Date posted: 25/04/2006 Work on artificial arms that would be controlled by the human mind is ramping up, thanks to a helping financial hand from DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). DARPA announced in February that it would pour $55 million into a prosthetic arm research project to be led by Johns Hopkins University?s Applied Physics Laboratory. The work will be spread among more than two dozen institutions. On Monday, the University of Utah announced a $10 million contract, as part of the overall project, to develop a "peripheral nerve interface." The implanted device would relay nerve impulses wirelessly from what?s left of a limb to a computer worn on the person?s belt. From there, the signals would be routed to a bionic arm and back to the remainder of the amputated arm, where they would then flow naturally back to the brain. "The new arm will take the signals that go to all the different arm muscles at once, and all the person has to do is think about natural movement and the arm will respond in a natural way,? said bioengineer Greg Clark, the University of Utah's principal researcher on the project. We're basically listening in on what the nervous system would be telling the natural arm, and translating that into signals that will move the artificial arm in the same way." See the full Story via external site: msnbc.msn.com Most recent stories in this category (The Brain): 14/06/2013: Deep Brain Stimulation Links Obesity to Programmed Metabolic Increase |
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