Researchers at Johns Hopkins are attempting to create a prosthetic arm that can be moved by brain waves. Photo: TNS
After Darth Vader lopped off Luke Skywalker’s hand in the movie The Empire Strikes Back, Rebel Alliance doctors installed a prosthetic that immediately moved and felt just like a human hand.
Science fiction is coming closer to reality at Johns Hopkins in the US, where researchers recently adapted a brain mapping technology to enable a patient to independently move individual fingers on a prosthetic arm just by thinking about it.
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