{"id":32522,"date":"2016-12-10T12:32:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T20:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/mind-controlled-bionic-limbs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:59:11","slug":"mind-controlled-bionic-limbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/mind-controlled-bionic-limbs","title":{"rendered":"Mind Controlled Bionic Limbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mind-controlled-bionic-limbs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the George Lucas classic Star Wars, hero Luke Skywalker\u2019s arm is severed and amputated during a lightsaber fight and consequently fitted with a bionic arm that he can use as if it were his own limb. At the time the script was written, such a remedy was pure science fiction; however, the ability to manufacture bionic arms that have the functionality and even feel of a natural limb is becoming very real, with goals of launching a prototype as soon as 2009. Already, primates have been trained to feed themselves using a robotic arm merely by thinking about it, while brain sensors have been picking up their brain-signal patterns since 2003. The time has come for implementing this technology on paralyzed human patients and amputees. This article will provide a brief explanation of the technology, its current status, and the potential future it holds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thefutureofthings.com\/3085-mind-controlled-bionic-limbs\/\">http:\/\/thefutureofthings.com\/3085-mind-controlled-bionic-limbs\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the George Lucas classic Star Wars, hero Luke Skywalker\u2019s arm is severed and amputated during a lightsaber fight and consequently fitted with a bionic arm that he can use as if it were his own limb. At the time the script was written, such a remedy was pure science fiction; however, the ability to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6,1501,2008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32522","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=32522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65622,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32522\/revisions\/65622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}