The Revolution Will Be Prosthetized
Darpa's prosthetic arm gives amputees new hope
From: IEEE Spectrum - 01/2009 - page 44
By: Sally Adee

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is pouring at least
US $71.2 million into the program in the hope that it will let amputees do
what most people take for granted: make gestures, test the water in a teacup,
turn a key, even peel the shell off an egg. Words like bionic and
thought-controlled have been thrown at the project, but they don’t do justice
to the sheer ordinariness of its purpose. DARPA isn't looking for a
superstrong "Six Million Dollar Man" arm; it just wants an arm that moves
exactly like a real one does. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan09/7105

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