But does she have the 1970s hairdo?
Posted on 09/14/2006 11:49:13 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
She's being called the world's first "bionic woman."
Claudia Mitchell, who lost her left arm in a motorcycle accident, can move her replacement robotic arm just by thinking.
"I can flex my elbow and open and close my hand with the mere thought of doing it," she said.
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(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
It was only the forearm and hand (claw really) but I saw a demonstration of the "Boston Arm" back in 1977. The issue was more in creating muscles than the control by thought. There were also problems with feedback. The person with the arm had to watch it move to know it was going to the right place.
Shalom.
Claudia "The Claw" Mitchell?
But does she have the 1970s hairdo?
This is cool and does not affect the mind/body dualism problem at all.
Does anyone know if our wounded Veterans are receiving such highend devices -- or are we giving them "hooks" and sending them home?
Semper Fi
Can she do it in slow motion?
She surely doesn't have that '70's Lindsey figure neither, does she?
She had man, um, robot hands!
BTW there was a Discovery Channel special about the development of these bionic limbs. A young girl about age five was befuddling her doctors. She had been born with her umblicial around her arm. Her arm was amputated at the elbow and the girl was fitted with a prosthetic limb. A computer controller was connected to the nerve in her upper arm and the pincers that activated by this computer/nerve interconnect.
In Kindergarten she began to run into battery problems. The doctor built a recording device and discovered that the issue was the amount of finger movements that he anticipated the little girl might do in a day. He guessed about 200. 500-600 movements were taxing her battery power! The films of this girl playing with her dolls, changing diapers, serving tea and all the other little girl activities were a marvel to watch.
Nanotechnology and medical technology will have Earth shattering effects. The ISS robot is an outgrowth of this technology and a fully articulated robot hand will soon be available!
Djihjihjihjihjihjih....... ;)
Well, I'm fairly sure DOD is involved in research on prosthetics with neural interfaces. (Besides helping wounded Vets, the same technology can be used in powered battle armor--think mechas in Japanese anime.)
I thought she was selling sleep number beds.
Tin Man Battle Armor...
"Does anyone know if our wounded Veterans are receiving such highend devices -- or are we giving them "hooks" and sending them home?"
Probably not yet, this looks like testing a prototype to me.
The guys who build my prosthetic were saying that the troops with above-the-knee amputations were getting the legs with computer controlled knees in them.
I agree. Nanotechnology, if the potential is even remotely tapped, will IMHO dwarf virtually any other technology advance in history.
MM
It's encourageing to hear we're not going on the cheap, for our guys who paid the price....for the rest of us.
Semper Fi
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