Dean Kamen's Luke Arm Reaches Clinical Trials

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Dean Kamen's Luke Arm Reaches Clinical Trials
« on: February 04, 2008, 07:18:54 pm »
Dean Kamen's Luke Arm Reaches Clinical Trials
     


The two year DARPA funding for Dean Kamen's Luke Arm prosthesis has come
to an end. DARPA has the option of giving Kamen's DEKA Research project a second
round of
funding to pay for clinical trials and FDA approval. An IEEE Spectrum article
offers a short history of the project, named after Luke Skywalker's
prosthesis. At the start of the program Kamen spent a few weeks studying
currently available prosthetic arms and concluded they were still using
"Flintstone's technology" unchanged since the Civil War,
offering the user little more than 3 degrees of freedom and a hook. The
Luke Arm is lighter than an average human arm and has 18 degrees of
freedom, almost as many as the 22 in a human arm. The arm's interface is
designed to support a variety of control mechanisms and can replicate
the subtle movement of the human arm and hand: "The arm has motor
control fine enough for test subjects to pluck chocolate-covered coffee
beans one by one, pick up a power drill, unlock a door, and shake a
hand".
   

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