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Amputee Makes History with APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb

Amputee Makes History with APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2014–2016.

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Johns Hopkins APL shows Les Baugh, a bilateral shoulder-level amputee, controlling two Modular Prosthetic Limbs by thought after a short training period. Nerves rerouted to his chest drive the arms.

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HN cites it as an astonishing glimpse of advanced thought-controlled prosthetics.

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“This particular thing from Johns Hopkins is just incredible”
— jmsdnns, Jan 2016, in “New book argues we can’t expect new tech to rekindle rapid economic growth”

What HN commenters said

4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

jmsdnnsJan 2016Strongly recommends

That's a great point. I described the next revolution as possibly one of automation, but that might not be enough. Maybe automation and robotics is better... hmm. This particular thing from Johns Hopkins is just incredible and gives us a glimpse of what might be in 50 years: ▶ this video

in “New book argues we can’t expect new tech to rekindle rapid economic growth” · View on HN

tim333Oct 2015Recommends

I'm sceptical the school kid project shown in your link actually works significantly. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory made a real one, I think by surgically moving 'spare' nerves to various points at the inside surface of the patients chest and then putting electrodes on the exterior surface. There's an interesting video explaining a bit: ▶ this video from [link]

in “What Would Real Brain-To-Brain Communication Look Like?” · View on HN

eli_gottliebJan 2016Cites it

>This particular thing from Johns Hopkins is just incredible and gives us a glimpse of what might be in 50 years: ▶ this video Who's going to be able to afford those?

in “New book argues we can’t expect new tech to rekindle rapid economic growth” · View on HN

mparlaneDec 2014Cites it

Must not have watched the video: ▶ this video This part of the video shows the arms are not attached. I'm sure he was trained to use the arms when they were not on him first.

in “Amputee controls prosthetic arms by thinking about them [video]” · View on HN

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Neuroscience & the brainRoboticsMedicine & infectious diseaseprostheticsbrain-machine interfacejohns hopkinsamputeeneural control