To Arms
From: Northwestern Magazine - Winter 2007 - page 30
By: Stephanie Yiu

Todd Kuiken is working on his computer in a Chicago campus office that
overlooks Lake Michigan. His fingers tap at the keys. His wrist bends as he
uses the mouse. As he speaks, his hands dance for emphasis. 

"The human arms and hands are the most incredible machines in the universe,"
says Kuiken, a professor of biomedical engineering, a medical doctor and
director of the Neural Engineering Center for Artificial Limbs at the
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. "They're dexterous, they're efficient,
and they have 70,000 built-in sensors."  

And they're the inspiration for Kuiken to build a better prosthetic arm.
Touted by the media as the inventor of the world's first "bionic" arm,
Kuiken, who is also an associate professor of physical medicine and
rehabilitation at the Feinberg School of Medicine, has already given six
amputees the ability to control a prosthetic arm with thought. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/winter2007/feature/kuiken.html

Neural Engineering Center for Artificial Limbs
http://www.ric.org/research/centers/necal/index.aspx

Todd Kuiken
http://www.ric.org/aboutus/people/doctors/detail.aspx?doctorID=43

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
http://www.ric.org/