{"id":28485,"date":"2016-07-30T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T19:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/researchers-have-made-a-prosthetic-arm-based-off-luke-skywalkers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:29:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:29:04","slug":"researchers-have-made-a-prosthetic-arm-based-off-luke-skywalkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/researchers-have-made-a-prosthetic-arm-based-off-luke-skywalkers","title":{"rendered":"Researchers have made a prosthetic arm based off Luke Skywalker\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-have-made-a-prosthetic-arm-based-off-luke-skywalkers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-funded prosthetic arm will be released for commercial use beginning in late 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20160708005511\/en\" target=\"_blank\">LUKE arm<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s most advanced prosthetics, was designed by Segway creator Dean Kamen and has been under development for close to a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The LUKE arm is named after Luke Skywalker\u2019s advanced prosthetic from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/magic-leap-brings-your-favorite-star-wars-characters-to-life-and-its-amazing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars<\/a> <\/em>films, and its banner feature is its control system.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-mind-controlled-prosthetic-arm-is-the-most-advanced-yet\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-mind-controlled-prosthetic-...vanced-yet<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-funded prosthetic arm will be released for commercial use beginning in late 2016. The LUKE arm, one of the world\u2019s most advanced prosthetics, was designed by Segway creator Dean Kamen and has been under development for close to a decade. The LUKE arm is named after Luke Skywalker\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28485","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66726,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28485\/revisions\/66726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}