Dean Kamen's "Luke Arm" Prosthesis Readies for Clinical Trials
From: IEEE Spectrum - 02/2008
By: Sarah Adee

Dean Kamen's "Luke arm" - a prosthesis named for the remarkably lifelike
prosthetic worn by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars - came to the end of its
two-year funding last month. Its fate now rests in the hands of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which funded the project. If DARPA
gives the project the green light - and some greenbacks - the
state-of-the-art bionic arm will go into clinical trials. If all goes well,
and the US Food and Drug Administration gives its approval, returning
veterans could be wearing the new artificial limb by next year.  

Read the entire article at:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb08/5957

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