HA!
This is from Forbes.
As far-out as they may sound, robotic replacement limbs are actually tantalizingly close. Hugh Herr at the MIT Media Laboratory for instance, developed a robotic knee and lower leg that allows patients to walk almost normally and even rollerblade. Herr’s devices are being tested at Brown University under a $7.2 million grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Thanks to a chip that reads nerve signals sent to the muscles that remain, the new robotic leg even climbs stairs. A commercial version of the knee, called the Rheo Knee, made by Iceland’s Ossur Therapeutics, hit the U.S. market on Feb. 1.
Other researchers are working on ways to connect robotic limbs directly to patients’ brains. The first steps have been taken, at least with primates. Miguel Nicolelis, a researcher at Duke University, trained monkeys to operate a robotic arm using a chip in their brain without moving a muscle.
May 13th, 2005 at 1:39 am
fullmetal meri! :p
May 13th, 2005 at 6:50 pm
Robot People. Vomit.