{"id":94323,"date":"2019-08-01T02:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/amputee-can-feel-objects-again-with-prosthetic-arm-inspired-by-luke-skywalker"},"modified":"2019-08-01T02:22:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:22:29","slug":"amputee-can-feel-objects-again-with-prosthetic-arm-inspired-by-luke-skywalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/amputee-can-feel-objects-again-with-prosthetic-arm-inspired-by-luke-skywalker","title":{"rendered":"Amputee can feel objects again with prosthetic arm inspired by Luke Skywalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amputee-can-feel-objects-again-with-prosthetic-arm-inspired-by-luke-skywalker2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 17 years ago, Keven Walgamott lost his left hand and part of his forearm in an electrical accident. Now, Walgamott can use his thoughts to tell the fingers of his bionic hand to pick up eggs and grapes. The prosthetic arm he tested also allowed Walgamott to feel the objects he grasped.<\/p>\n<p>A biomedical engineering team at the University of Utah created the \u201cLUKE Arm,\u201d named in honor of the robotic hand Luke Skywalker obtains in \u201cStar Wars: The Empire Strikes Back\u201d after Darth Vader slices off his hand with a lightsaber.<\/p>\n<p>A new study published Wednesday in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/robotics.sciencemag.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.aax2352\" target=\"_blank\">Science Robotics<\/a> explained how the arm revived the sensation of touch for Walgamott. The University of Chicago and the Cleveland Clinic were also involved in the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 17 years ago, Keven Walgamott lost his left hand and part of his forearm in an electrical accident. Now, Walgamott can use his thoughts to tell the fingers of his bionic hand to pick up eggs and grapes. The prosthetic arm he tested also allowed Walgamott to feel the objects he grasped. A biomedical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,38,6,1501,2008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94323","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}