How Mind-Controlled Bionic Arms Fuse To The Body | WIRED

The fact that you can "feel" with a prosthetic limb, even if it's in a lower "resolution" than a biological hand is still amazing to me.

$10K for this bionic arm? That’s a BARGAIN, definitely worth the cost.

This is incredible. I can’t believe it’s not hundreds of thousands of dollars for the arm alone, not even counting the surgeries and therapies to follow. There’s some truly astounding minds in this world to be able to think of this and then figure out how to make it possible.

Absolutely incredible that this technology has become a reality. I've always wondered why this wasn't done before, considering the brain interfaces with electrical signals. Truly an incredible achivement of neuroscience, computer science, biology, and engineering.

This right here should be news, this is incredible.

I remember watching Fullmetal Alchemist years ago, a science-fiction fantasy anime where the main character has a prosthetic limb just like this, with electrodes connected inside his body so he can move them. I remember thinking “how amazing would it be if we could do that in real life on day.” I can’t believe that day is today.

Bros out here casually splicing wires to muscles and nerves. What a legend.

I thought this stuff was only possible in science fiction. It's so fascinating and wonderful that they can help amputee patients...yet at the same time, it's kind of scary to see the days of Cyberpunk approaching.

This is the kind of breakthrough I dreamt of when I was a kid. I'm so grateful to hear some good news, this technology is going to change lives. And it's only going to get better.

Imagine how it must've felt for the engineers when the patients first confirmed that they can 'feel' (or sense) the object in the prosthetics' fingers, after so much trial and error. My jaw would've dropped to the floor in that room lol

Honestly, as much as a transhumanist as I am (very excited for seeing what the middle bounds of this tech's limits, to say nothing of its upper ones) I really appreciate how Dr. Catalan talks about where he wants his research effort to go. As cool as it is to probe how superhuman we could potentially go with this technology, he's more focused on "what problems in this field have we not yet solved". It seems like he would rather solve a lot of problems to rough biological parity rather than ride one technology to the sci-fi endpoint that a lot of people dream of, and that's admirable.

Science is incredible. We should be grateful for these doctors and researchers.

Absolutely mind blowing this technology is advancing so fast. 7 years ago the first brain controlled bionic hand/ arm was extremely experimental ( requiring very specific arm amputation ) and costed over $100,000. Now in less than a decade the price has dropped to $10,000 and seemingly anyone can get it.

Insane that we have progress prosthetics to this point. I feel within a generation we'll have Star Wars / Ghost in the Shell type prosthetics. The cost hurts to hear, but really goes to show much we take for granted that our bodies do.

This right here, is what we call a MONUMENTAL achievement. Not the prostethic, but that too is obviously a serious achievement and should be applauded, but the connection between nerves and wires. If this becomes popular, which I will personally make popular if it somehow does not, this would absolutely be up there in terms of technological revolution. Not on the level of neolithic or industrial revolutions, granted, but close enough to be comparable.

Idk what's more fascinating this prosthetics of the ability of a bone to regenerate and regrow attaching itself to the titanium prosthetics

When in college 10yr ago I had a wireless EEG (emotive) and no-one in the neuroscience department wanted to team up to analyze the data and help train it - I assume because the tech was new and they didn't understand how accurate it could be. Now it's a whole department at the same college. How fast we move.

Incredible! Who would've thought that this would be possible. Honestly, $10k for a prosthesis that can move with you and grasp things is a very reasonable price. Especially when one round of IVF is the same cost.

Beyond incredible. Tomorrow today. I had no idea that prosthetics had evolved to this level. You would think this would be front page news. Thank you Wired.

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