Artificial Muscle-operated Arm (AMO) is the future of prosthetic limbs. Instead of the current prosthetic arms which just hang at your side, this machine reads your brain waves then translates those signals into signals that the arm can read allowing you to move your prosthetic arm. As of now it can only move the arm not the fingers, but considering that it was built by college students at the Ryerson University in California.
"Independent finger movements require many more sensors," one of the creators, Thiago Caires said. "For example, while not impossible, it's still quite difficult to grab a key and unlock a door"
The mechanics behind this arm will revolution how disabled people cope with the loss of a limb by allowing the machine to act like the normal limb. The technology behind the arm has a lot of potential. This also has the potential to allow you to place your mind into a machine, and also opens up the avenue of an iron man type machine, which could create super-soldiers.
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thats such a good idea!
ReplyDeletethis is sweet!
ReplyDeleteStraight out of starwars or some type of sci-fi movie, that sounds pretty revolutionary. Prothetics of the future!
ReplyDeletethis is really neat and creative! this will definitely be advantageous for people who need prosthetic limbs in the future
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