This Star Wars-inspired prosthetic is helping amputees sense and feel objects again
About 17 years ago, Keven Walgamott lost his left hand and part of his forearm in an electrical accident. Now, Walgamott can use his thoughts to tell the fingers of his bionic hand to pick up eggs and grapes. The prosthetic arm he tested also allowed Walgamott to feel the objects he grasped.
A biomedical engineering team at the University of Utah created the"LUKE Arm," named in honor of the robotic hand Luke Skywalker obtains in"Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" after Darth Vader slices off his hand with a lightsaber. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Science Robotics explained how the arm revived the sensation of touch for Walgamott. The University of Chicago and the Cleveland Clinic were also involved in the study.
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