The Pentagon's Bionic Arm From: 60 Minutes - Originally broadcast 04/2009 - rebroadcast 09/20/2009 60 Minutes: Pentagon Is Working To Develop A Life-Changing, High Tech Prosthetic Arm When Americans are wounded in Afghanistan or Iraq, no expense is spared to save their lives. But once they're home, if they have suffered an amputation of their arm, they usually end up wearing an artificial limb that hasn't changed much since World War II. In all the wonders of modern medicine, building a robotic arm with a fully functioning hand has not been remotely possible. But as 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley first reported in April, that is starting to change. One remarkable leap in technology is called the DEKA arm and it's just one of the breakthroughs in a $100 million Pentagon program called "Revolutionizing Prosthetics." Read the entire article and view videos at: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/10/60minutes/main4935509.shtml