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April 15, 2005

Darpa Wants Replacement Arms by 2009

Filed under: All, Tech, Projects, Human, Current Events, Robots

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There are plenty of reasons to hate our government, from low quality cheese handouts to an embarrassing lack of prisoner-fueled gladiatorial events, but at least they have no problem telling scientists to stop sucking the creme filling from grants and start building robot arms.

Darpa, the funds-holding financier of many military project, has put
out a challenge to modern prostheticists to build a fake arm with,
“enough finesse to pick up a raisin or to write in longhand. It needs
to be sensitive enough for the wearer to demonstration to do day-to-day
tasks in the dark. And the limb will have to be strong enough to lift
60 pounds at a time.”

REPLACEMENT ARM, GOOD AS NEW [DefenseTech]

[Via Gizmodo]

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