{"id":17169,"date":"2015-09-12T13:46:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T20:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/this-mind-controlled-prosthetic-robot-arm-lets-you-actually-feel-what-it-touches"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:22:28","slug":"this-mind-controlled-prosthetic-robot-arm-lets-you-actually-feel-what-it-touches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/this-mind-controlled-prosthetic-robot-arm-lets-you-actually-feel-what-it-touches","title":{"rendered":"This mind-controlled prosthetic robot arm lets you actually feel what it touches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwz9SPMDO2k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The US government said today (Sept. 11) that it\u2019s successfully made a Luke Skywalker-like prosthetic arm that allows the wearer to actually feel things.<\/p>\n<p>At a conference in July, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/436239\/soon-well-be-able-to-control-robot-limbs-with-our-minds-like-luke-skywalker\/\">presented the achievements<\/a> it\u2019d had to date in building a robot arm that can be controlled by a human brain. A little over two months later, the agency has announced at <a href=\"http:\/\/darpawaitwhat.com\/\">another conference<\/a> that it\u2019s managed to update the technology to give the wearer the feeling of actually being able to sense things with the arm.<\/p>\n<p>The robotic arm is connected by wires that link up to the wearer\u2019s motor cortex\u2014the part of the brain that controls muscle movement\u2014and sensory cortex, which identifies tactile sensations when you touch things. The wires from the motor cortex allow the wearer to control the motion of the robot arm, and pressure sensors in the arm that connect back into the sensory cortex give the wearer the sensation that they are touching something.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/500572\/this-mind-controlled-prosthetic-robot-arm-lets-you-actually-feel-what-it-touches\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government said today (Sept. 11) that it\u2019s successfully made a Luke Skywalker-like prosthetic arm that allows the wearer to actually feel things. At a conference in July, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) presented the achievements it\u2019d had to date in building a robot arm that can be controlled by a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1694,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-electronics","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45934,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17169\/revisions\/45934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}