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Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm Gets Closer Than Ever to Human Limb


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Mind-controlled prosthetic arm

An undated photo shows a 52 year-old woman, paralysed from the neck down, demonstrating the use of a new mind-controlled prosthetic arm with intuitive control to help her eat a chocolate bar at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre in Pittsburgh.

Credit: Reuters/University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre/handout

Researchers in the United States have developed a robotic arm controlled directly by thought with a level of agility closer than ever to a normal human limb.

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