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IEEE Spectrum
January 2009
Sally Adee |
Winner: The Revolution Will Be Prosthetized Darpa's prosthetic arm gives amputees new hope   |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2009 |
Slideshow: The $71.2 Million Arm The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is spending at least US $71.2 million to reinvent prosthetic arms from the ground up. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Sarah Adee |
Dean Kamen's Luke Arm Prosthesis Readies for Clinical Trials DARPA may decide the fate of Dean Kamen's next-generation prosthetic arm. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Sally Adee |
For those without hands, there's Air Guitar Hero DARPA project repurposes Guitar Hero to train amputees to use artificial arms |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Sally Adee |
A "Manhattan Project" for the Next Generation of Bionic Arms Johns Hopkins researchers lead a nationwide effort to make a bionic arm that wires directly into the brain to let amputees regain motor control and feeling. |
National Defense
April 2012
Eric Beidel |
Prosthetic Arm Controlled by Brain Wounded warriors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center recently used a new prosthetic arm that they can control with their thoughts. |
Fast Company
February 2010
Paul Hochman |
Bionic Legs, i-Limbs, and Other Super Human Prosheses You'll Envy Save your tears for Tiny Tim. A boom in sophisticated prostheses has created a most unlikely by-product: envy. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2007
Willie D. Jones |
Fueling a Robotic Arms Race Rocket propellant to make prosthetic arms better, stronger, faster. |
Wired
July 2001
Evan Ratliff |
Born to Run Microchips promise to make artificial legs as good as new. Fast-forward amputees are remaking life and limb on their own. The race is on... |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Sarah Adee |
Re-Engineering the Prosthetic-Arm Socket To create the next generation of prosthetic arms, Dean Kamen had to reinvent the prosthetic socket. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Erik Sofge |
DARPA's Better Bionic Arm: Our Most Limb-Like Prosthetic In a first for prosthetics, a new mechanical arm gives its user the sense of touch. |
National Defense
May 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Casualties of War Leading research at the Department of Veterans Affairs is aimed at helping soldiers who lost limbs in combat. At the core of this program are new technologies meant to seamlessly fuse prosthetics with the human body. |
PC Magazine
June 6, 2008
Eric Griffith |
Seven Technologies That Will Touch Your Life The future will be a feast for the senses, with breakthroughs that enhance computers' ability to hear, see, and even smell for us. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Prachi Patel-Predd |
Sensitive Synthetic Skin in the Works for Prosthetic Arms Carbon nanotubes key to making synthetic skin that lets artificial limbs sense heat and touch. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Sally Adee |
Mastering the Brain-Computer Interface Engineers are learning to translate between the neural signals of the brain and the machine language of a prosthetic arm. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2007
Sarah Adee |
Artificial Arm Researchers Restore Feeling of Missing Limb New knowledge will let amputees control and feel with robotic arms. |
National Defense
April 2011
Eric Beidel |
Army Contract Seeks Better Robotic Prosthetics The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency spent $100 million to develop a robotic arm that can be controlled through a chip in a user's brain. |
Wired
October 23, 2007
Miyoko Ohtake |
Rocket-Powered Prosthetic Arm Nearly Ready for Liftoff A new myoelectrically activated prosthetic arm. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Jose M. Carmena |
How to Control a Prosthesis With Your Mind New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural way. |
Popular Mechanics
October 15, 2007
Erik Sofge |
Scrap Yard Cybernetics Build Cheaper Robo-Hand for Third World One myoelectric hand can cost $35,000 and up -- more of a concept than an option for many amputees around the world. So when a team of Mexican graduate students began working on a new prosthetic hand, their goal was simple: Cut costs. |
Outside
October 2009
Jill Davis |
Suspension of Disbelief Most people who lose a leg dream of walking again. For adaptive athlete Jarem Frye, the inventor of a spring-loaded prosthetic knee transforming the lives of amputees, that wasn't nearly enough. He wanted to do 180s on the snow. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2005
Marlowe Hood |
Born to Run Could an 18-year-old double amputee perched on a pair of carbon-fiber springs have an edge over able-bodied athletes? Leading experts were surveyed, and the answers are as different as they are surprising. |
National Defense
March 2010
Stew Magnuson |
DARPA to Take on Major New Robotics Initiative The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced a major new initiative to create robotic autonomous manipulators that mimic the human hands, an agency program manager said. |
Fast Company
April 2010 |
Re: February 2010 Letters to the Editor: "Transition Game"... "Super Human"... "The New New Urbanism"... "We Really Need to Talk"... more... |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Erico Guizzo |
Rat, Monkey, and Man Control Robots With Their Minds As brain-machine interfaces become more advanced, so do the devices they can control |
Popular Mechanics
July 7, 2008
Erik Sofge |
For Future of Mind Control, Robot-Monkey Trials Are Just a Start A study in the journal Nature this spring all but confirmed the latest evolution in the hard-charging, heady field of cybernetics: Monkeys can control machines with their brains. |
Chemistry World
July 2010
Mike Brown |
Special Report: Biomaterials revolution Materials for biomedical applications in the 21st century are big business, with researchers developing advanced plastics for implants and carbon fibre for prosthetic limbs - materials that are much stronger, lighter and more durable. |
