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View story Best Bionic Arm - Proto 1 - DARPA Prosthetics Research Initiative - Jesse Sullivan - Popular Mechani 1 / 0 http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health_medicine/4218... Submitted by graymatter 13 months, 4 weeks, 5 hours ago t's an ambitious deadline: By 2009, DARPA hopes to have a mechanical arm whose functionality is on par with a flesh-and-blood limb. A new arm developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is just as ambitious, allowing its user to actually feel an object in his grasp. Proto 1, the first prototype to come out of DARPA's prosthetic initiative, was tested by Jesse Sullivan, a lineman who lost both of his arms in an accident six years ago. Proto 1 was att Tags: Bionic Arm comment (0) | Category: bones, joints & muscles | Add graymatter as a source Comments Votes (my sources) Votes (Everyone) Add your comment Add your comment If you already have an account, sign in: Email address: Password: If you don't, just complete these fields: (or join Kify Health World for free) Your name: Your site: (optional) Your comment: (You have up to 5000 characters left) Can you see the 5 most prominent letters/numbers in this image? (case insensitive) Please enter them here: « go back

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