The inventorDean Kamenis being interviewed atAll thing Dnow . He ’s here totalk about his cyborg prosthetic “ Luke weapon ” . ( It ’s name after Luke , yes , Skywalker . ) awful . UPDATE : The full vid of Kamen ’s audience , including arm demo footage , is embedded below .
https://gizmodo.com/dean-kamen-cyborg-arm-part-ii-261933
Dean says that fatalities are down because of battlefield tech and triage methods . But that many soldiers are occur back lose limbs . He want to make an arm to replace their missing unity . He wants it sensitive enough to pick up a grape or permit soldiers to use a razor to knock off , but be ego - contain in term of power . And a two- year deadline .
He say that a year by and by , they built an 8.9 - quid arm using titanium , tradition motor , and so on . There ’s 18 degrees of exemption , and they ’re now seeing a demonstration of a serviceman who is chafe his olfactory organ . Dean say he did this in one year .
The control techniques are rotatory . He ’s work a video of a guy who did n’t have both his coat of arms for 18 years , and read how to use the branch effectively in less than two dozen hours of training . He ’s showing a video that shows a cat who knows how to punch , go past a Ping Pong ball to his friend and stream a drink for another man who is holding a cup with the same type of arm . Then the video shows Chuck , the human beings with no arms , for the first time in 13 years , feeding himself cereal .
Holy turd , now he ’s show a television of a guy using the weapon system using only his idea . He learn this proficiency in two days , but Dean says it was more like the system learned how to interface with the human .
front at what he ’s doing , the guy wassail and hoi polloi spat . It ’s been two days . But the amazing thing is that he ’s put the cup down so it ’s become a lower brain stem function in two hour of doing cupful affair .
Attaching the weapon system at once to nerves require a lot of surgery .
But there are special limb functions , even if it ’s very complicated . larn how to control a back hoe , with four ascendency , takes years . And the branch has 18 degrees of freedom . But the great unwashed do n’t instruct how by using each degree . In fact , it ’s more efficient , Dean says . There are three degrees of exemption , so they did macro . With this , a man learned how to pick up bottles , nails and other items .
impound the branch was a challenge , day to daytime . Nine pounds on an subdivision is heavy over a few minutes , lease alone a twenty-four hours . So they do it that no one would wear them because of that . So Dean designed line bladders that shift the exercising weight on the consistency when peaceful ( like fidgeting in a chairman ) and inflate to be hard when the servomechanism in the arm discover load .
When they did a demo for the secretary of the Army , they showed a man picking up 12 grapeshot and eating them without break or dropping any .
you could literally use infrared light , take signals become through the skull without any invasive interpolation . That ’s what we ’re working on next as a controller .
Dean is take five minutes to explain the troth of the modern world and the responsibleness of the smart , rich people in the world to help switch that . I ’m not sure I have the words to express his thoughts , so I ’ll wait for the official 500 video and embed it here later .
Vid from All Things D :
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