New Advancements In Robotic Limb Replacement Is So Star Wars
Posted in Clips | News on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 by Rob Heath | Comments
Covering this video is sort of stretching our range, but damn it, this is just too cool to not share. Io9 recently posted a pretty sweet video showcasing a man controlling a robotic hand with his mere brain force powers.
The video does feel reminiscent of the ending scene in The Empire Strikes Back where Luke is having his replacement robotic hand attached to his arm. The narration in the video just adds to that comparison.
I have attached the video in the full post.
Io9 attached the following description to the video:
An Italian research team, lead by neurologist Paolo Maria Rossini, created the LifeHand, the latest in a long line of robotic prostheses. The team performed microsurgery to attach the hand 26-year-old Pierpaolo Petruzziello, who lost much of his left hand in a car accident. Petruzziello apparently mastered the hand in just a few days, and it responded to 95 percent of his mental commands. He claims that he also received incredible sensory feedback from the hand, even registering needle pinpricks.
Here is another video similar to the one above.
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