{"id":20531,"date":"2016-01-07T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T22:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/meet-the-man-with-a-thought-controlled-robotic-arm"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:16:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:16:39","slug":"meet-the-man-with-a-thought-controlled-robotic-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/meet-the-man-with-a-thought-controlled-robotic-arm","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Man With a Thought-Controlled Robotic Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-man-with-a-thought-controlled-robotic-arm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Johnny Matheny is the first person to attach a mind-controlled prosthetic limb directly to his skeleton. After losing his arm to cancer in 2008, Johnny signed up for a number of experimental surgeries to prepare himself to use a DARPA-funded prosthetic prototype. The Modular Prosthetic Limb, developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, allows Johnny to regain almost complete range of motion through the Bluetooth-controlled arm. (Video by Drew Beebe, Brandon Lisy) (Source: Bloomberg) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2015-11-12\/meet-the-man-with-a-thought-controlled-robotic-arm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Matheny is the first person to attach a mind-controlled prosthetic limb directly to his skeleton. After losing his arm to cancer in 2008, Johnny signed up for a number of experimental surgeries to prepare himself to use a DARPA-funded prosthetic prototype. The Modular Prosthetic Limb, developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, allows [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20531","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\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68905,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20531\/revisions\/68905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}