{"id":25482,"date":"2016-05-07T20:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T03:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/purdue-technology-revolutionizes-future-of-artificial-limbs"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:59:00","slug":"purdue-technology-revolutionizes-future-of-artificial-limbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/purdue-technology-revolutionizes-future-of-artificial-limbs","title":{"rendered":"Purdue technology revolutionizes future of artificial limbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/purdue-technology-revolutionizes-future-of-artificial-limbs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Expansion of BMI and Bionics has now come to Purdue University.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) \u2014 Researchers at Purdue have been working on technology that will help pave the way for the future people who use artificial limbs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point of these research labs is to discover new technologies that we can translate into the real world and make the world a better place,\u201d Purdue Center for Implantable Devices Director Pedro Irazoqui said.<\/p>\n<p>Bionic limbs are artificial limbs which use signals sent from the brain, nerves and muscles to operate as the user wishes \u2014 just like real limbs work.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/wlfi.com\/2016\/05\/07\/purdue-technology-revolutionizes-future-of-artificial-limbs\/\">http:\/\/wlfi.com\/2016\/05\/07\/purdue-technology-revolutionizes-...ial-limbs\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expansion of BMI and Bionics has now come to Purdue University. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) \u2014 Researchers at Purdue have been working on technology that will help pave the way for the future people who use artificial limbs. \u201cThe point of these research labs is to discover new technologies that we can translate into the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25482","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50556,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25482\/revisions\/50556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}