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Posts Tagged amputee

Amputee controls two prosthetic limbs by thinking. Wait, what?

March 9, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
Les Baugh was able to use prosthetic arms by simply thinking about it. A Colorado man became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control two of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Modular Prosthetic Limbs (MPL). Les Baugh was able to operate the system by simply thinking about moving his limbs. […]