The Kamen prosthetic arm - simply amazing

[SteveOBHave]

Fantastic uses for technology - I have posted something about this before but since then it has come along in leaps and bounds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0_mLumx-6Y

 

[Inquisitor]

That's pretty cool. The best thing is that with practice (and refinement of the arm), the user should actually be able to control it directly via neural impulses, as if it's actually part of their body

 

[Hawk Tuah]

How is the guy controlling it?

 

[The_blue]

foot plate.

 

[Dracata]

foot plate.

Actually I think he was just demonstrating the 'foot plate controls', it looks like he was controlling it via thought (one of the methods of integration integrate with the nerve endings, allowing real movement by thought)

 

[Nico_Joey]

Really is amazing work these people do, couldn't possibly imagine having to design something that complicated.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Thats awesome, another 10 years and I reckon it will be almost as agile as a human arm, another 5 years stronger as well with equal dexterity, but id imagine that would require anchor bolts to the patients skeleton, which brings a whole host of other issues, well interesting research area.

 

[Glaucus]

Wow I knew things where coming along. That looks like a fully functioning arm, which can do every day to day job.

Can be controlled by various means, but attaching it to nervous I assume would be the most common way.

All they need to do know. Is some how extract energy/electricity from the body.

 

[Combat squirrel]

All they need to do know. Is some how extract energy/electricity from the body.

Not really, that would be well low down on the list of must haves, there are plenty of other sources of energy, sun for example, agility and strength equal to normal arms is the No.1 by far, that arm while still good, is like WAYYYYYYYyy worse than a human arm, id say less than 5% as agile and strong (the main problem of strength is not an electronic motor, i.e. how much that can move, obviously some will have more power than a human muscle), but how the arm is anchord to the human, and how the body will distrubute weight bearing, there needs to be a lot of research into intelligent arms (strength assesment) and anchoring systems to the human body

 

[Spektor]

Nice, can't see it being too far off until very agile and ultra-realistic looking prosthetics are available... also, damn that must have been one nasty electric shock that guy took.

 

[SteveOBHave]

Nice, can't see it being too far off until very agile and ultra-realistic looking prosthetics are available... also, damn that must have been one nasty electric shock that guy took.

Yeah it's not a nice way to lose an arm/arms. (not that there is a nice way). Often if human flesh receives a big enough electricity burn it can induce necrosis - he may not have initially lost the arms but the subsequent flesh destruction can well end up with amputation.

 

[Mr Jack]

Fantastic stuff. And it's nice to see the Segway guy turn his brilliance to something useful.

 

[GeForce]

That's rather cool