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  • Aimee Mullins has turned her prosthetic legs into a possibly desirable advantage -- prosthetics can make people taller and potentially super-abled instead of disabled. Mullins is a a champion sprinter in the Paralympics, and she has over a dozen different prosthetic legs -- and is having fun with the improving technologies of prosthetic limbs. [url]
  • This American Life covered how people can totally miss seeing a one-armed woman. Mary Archbold is a professional dancer who has become incredibly good at concealing her missing appendage. [url]
  • An exoskeleton called eLegs was developed with some Pentagon funding and could sell to the general public for about $50,000. Bionics are getting cheaper, but they're not quite ready to make anyone into Iron Man just yet. [url]
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    ]]>     urls-we-dig-up http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20091210/1632287302     Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:00:00 PDT DailyDirt: We Can Rebuild Him. We Have The Technology. Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110812/17033615499/dailydirt-we-can-rebuild-him-we-have-technology.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110812/17033615499/dailydirt-we-can-rebuild-him-we-have-technology.shtml
  • The Mercedes GP Petronas F1 team is sponsoring a bionic limb for a 14-yr old kid... and you can, too. This sounds a bit more praiseworthy than the million dollar home page. [url]
  • Robotic exoskeletons are on the way (in a decade or so). The Raytheon Sarcos XOS 2 is the second generation of the XOS 1 robo-suit which came out in 2008. But late adopters should probably wait for the third iteration to really work out the kinks. [url]
  • A powered prosthetic leg that has software-controlled knee and ankle joints weighs just 9 pounds -- a bit less than most natural lower limbs. This artificial leg also has an "anti-stumble" feature and can go about 8 miles on a single charge. [url]
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    ]]>     urls-we-dig-up http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20110812/17033615499     Wed, 18 May 2011 17:00:00 PDT DailyDirt: These Robotic Exoskeletons Were Made For Walking... Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110204/15011212970/dailydirt-these-robotic-exoskeletons-were-made-walking.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110204/15011212970/dailydirt-these-robotic-exoskeletons-were-made-walking.shtml
  • A recent grad from UC Berkeley walked across a stage to get his diploma using a robot exoskeleton. The stripped-down exoskeleton cost about $15,000 -- down from $90,000+ versions that are on the market already. [url]
  • Eythor Bender demonstrates his robot exoskeleton work for a TedTalk. Military use for these exoskeletons would allow soldiers to carry around a lot more gear... [url]
  • The Walk Again Project aims to create brain-machine interfaces (BMI) in the form of neuroprosthetic devices that can control exoskeletal robots for mobility assistance to persons with severe paralysis. The brain implant technology sounds pretty ambitious -- and could be useful for a lot of other applications, too. [url]
  • Robot Suit HAL is another robot exoskeleton designed to interpret the wearer's intentions for movement and assist with those movements. Hopefully, it will also allow users named Dave to open the pod bay doors. [url]
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