APL MODULAR PROSTHETIC LIMBS WRITE HISTORY
What do the following sentences tell you? “Hasta la vista, baby” “I’ll be back”… Well the following news clip made us think about the Terminator right away. Its quite unreal to see, that technology is this far and able to do these type of things.
Coloradan les baugh, made history at the johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory (APL) when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control two ‘modular prosthetic limbs’. 40 years after he lost both arms in an electrical accident, baugh was able to operate the bionic biceps by thinking of the movement and then performing tasks. before he was capable to complete this, he needed to undergo a surgery know as muscle reinnveration.
