Movie "The Empire Strikes Back", the father of Luke was Darth Vader cut off his right hand, the end piece, medical robots to help him put on a mechanical prosthesis, and this is like really prosthetic hands can be arbitrary, like freedom of movement, to the next episode. " Jedi, "Luke all the way with this lightsaber wielding a prosthetic when he sparred with Darth Vader, his hands cut off, only to find that his father is using prosthetics.
"The Empire Strikes Back" is already old movies in 1980, but like the film, as can be directly controlled by the brain, the same with the real prosthetic hand, but has yet to appear, at most, only use the app to adjust the prosthesis, but now develop a set of biological prostheses, prosthetic function and practicality will be greatly enhanced.
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins University) team developed a biological prostheses, with the line connected to the patient on the motor nerve stump, so you can use the brain to prosthetic hand as if real action, and there is still a sense of prosthetics detectors, signal line connected to the stump on the sensory nerves, so the hand can also have a sense of justice, in addition to prosthetic hand only has 26 joints, can basically make the staff can do any action.
Research team said that users of such prostheses, adapt very fast, although they need to practice in order to move freely, but it feels like it was really the same hand rehabilitation; And although mechanical prostheses to build, but can also be covered as like the skin of the skin that looks like a real hand, but the research team said that many users do not want to put on the skin, because I think the robot is cool.
Research team leader Michael · Mailao Lin (Michael McLoughlin) said he hoped one day to make wearing a mechanical prosthetic hand, people can play the piano. His hope is that the U.S. Department of Defense is another health insurance coverage because of the war are willing to lose this new arm of the soldiers prosthetic hand, because for most people, it is the asking price is not cheap, a ~ $ 60,000 to five of the spectrum.
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