The Gospel of Amputees: FDA approves DEKA arm, allowing prosthetic limbs to perform gripping and other complex movements like real arms.

Able-bodied people are difficult to understand the suffering of the disabled, such as no right hand, drink a glass of water can not be done. Recently, the FDA approved the use and sale of the Deka ARM System project, which is a prosthetic prosthesis that can perform many complex movements, known as Luke, the Skywalker Luke of Star Wars, and he was fitted with a flexible prosthetic hand after he was cut off by his father.

DEKA arm's strength is that it monitors the muscle power at the severed limbs of the amputee and converts it into a machine-capable instruction to control the limb's movements. It is alleged that Deka arm can complete a variety of complex operations such as eating, unlocking, combing and pulling zippers, and the existing prostheses are not up to this standard.

DEKA arm inventor is very famous, he is the Segway inventor Dean Kamen, technical wizards, the proliferation of players. DEKA arm This project is still in the early stage, compatibility has yet to be improved, mass production there is a period of time, the price is not known.

If the muscles of the remaining limbs are collected enough to control the prosthetic limbs, the muscles of the healthy limbs should be more powerful, so the outlook is good, like Myo, a body-sensing project based on bio-electric detection.