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New Hope For Amputees: Part 2

By Andrew ⋅ June 7, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

A recent post published by myself sometime last week entitled “New Hope For Amputees“, which reported on new technological advances in prosthesis, gathered a fair amount of attention and only yesterday I received an email informing me of an article at TheWeekDaily.com, which detailed and examined the lives of amputees and further prosthesis technology. After [...]

New Hope For Amputees

By Andrew ⋅ May 29, 2008 ⋅ One comment

New hope has recently been given to amputees after the unveiling of a new kind of robotic prosthetic technology, which has proven successful in monkeys. The robotic limbs were completely controlled by the brain of the monkey, enabling it to feed itself without any form of muscle contraction. The scientists involved in the project [...]

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