http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/dean-kamens-cyborg-arm-its-real-and-its-spectacular-243648.php

This is absolutely amazing. They did the R&D in only 2 years. This is American ingenuity at it's best.

No question, thats good stuff.

I guess the people who are active in this forum prefer negative threads.

Awesome.
How much one of those cost? Are all amputee veterans going to be covered by federal funds?

that is remarkable sixbillion dollar man is on the way

That is technology from about 2 yrs ago. It was developed at the University of Washington, and sold to the Japanese. Its really more amazing than they show it used with the monkey and the arm and they dont show you its current limitations.
The original technology is non evasive as well. I did a report on it, wait I'll find a link.

Your Thought Is Its Command


John Edwards | ED Online ID #15244 | April 27, 2007
Article Rating: Not Rated


What good is a robot if you can't order it around with your thoughts? Rajesh Rao, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, has answered this question with an input system that can be used to control the movement of a humanoid robot with signals from a human brain.

Rao and his students have developed a system that lets people tell a robot where to go and what to pick up merely by thinking about these actions. Donning a skullcap sprinkled with 32 electrodes, users view the robot's movements on a display that receives video signals from two cameras: one mounted on the robot and another above it (Fig. 1).

http://electronicdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=15244

There is a lot more than what I posted to the article, and it explains its current limitations as well as its possible future.

I saw a few months later where they sold it to Japan!
Gamers and the military were very interested in the technology. I dont know why they sold it to Japan!

Oh, Im sorry, I was thinking that was the article about the monkey feeding himself with the robotic arm. My bad!

Thats cool stuff there.
Check out the article I linked though. Its interesting stuff too!

I saw a special on this on military/discovery channel. It works of the residual nerve bundles left in the sholder back and pectoral areas. If you ask me it is about time that we made another large scientific breakthrough. This is great