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Artificial arm guided directly by the brain

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Impressive development of Australians, here I leave this I found on a blog.

A young Austrian twenty years will become the first European carrier arm prosthesis addressed directly by the brain and have been developed by a company Germanic in its research center in Vienna (Austria).

Christian Kandlbauer, a mechanic who as a result of an accident with electricity high voltage lost both arms, so you can return to practice, and that allow you to move prosthetic arms and hands without jerking.

The young man, he was an amputee arm from the shoulder and the other from above the elbow, is the first European to take advantage of this invention, and the third person in the world.

"From now on we'll do it all without help from others. Nobody can imagine how ever need someone to go to the bathroom, eating and washing, "said the boy at the same time added that this development will bring a new quality of life for people like him.

To date the prosthesis allowed only three possibilities of movement: opening and closing the hand, raise and lower the elbow and rotate the hand and had to perform them one after another and not simultaneously. However, the new boy's arm has seven joints and can move several at once, just thinking about it, to perform a maneuver through intuition, explained the surgeon who carried out the necessary preliminary interventions.

On the shoulders, the young man still had remnants of the nerves leading to the arms and transmitting impulses from the brain, remains that doctors have moved to the chest muscles now receiving signals to be recorded by electrodes and trigger movements concerned.

Artificial Arm

Source: http://tecnologas.blogspot.com/

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