University of Utah researchers will receive up to $10.3 million to help develop a new prosthetic arm that would work, feel and look like a real arm. The Utah work is a key part of a U.S. Department of Defense contract worth up to $55 million to develop the new device for soldiers and potentially others whose arms were amputated.
We're getting closer and closer to making the movie The Terminator a reality. This is all part of the evolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 project. The key link in this research will be a peripheral nerve interface for the prosthesis.
Here's a direct link to another version of the study:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619143/posts
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