[AMP-L] Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms

[Wayne Renardson]

via IEEE Spectrum:

The Cold War Arms Race Over Prosthetic Arms The Russian Hand came 
first, but the Boston Arm was better.

In 1961, Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, broke his hip and 
wound up in Massachusetts General Hospital. Wiener´s bad luck turned 
into fruitful conversations with his orthopedic surgeon, Melvin 
Glimcher. Those talks in turn led to a collaboration and an 
invention: the Boston Arm, an early myoelectric prosthesis. The 
device´s movements were controlled using electrical signals from an 
amputee´s residual bicep and tricep muscles.  

The rest of the story, with photos, here:

https://tinyurl.com/26pu96q4

with links to:

Creating a Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel >  

Winner: The Revolution Will Be Prosthetized >  

The Bionic-Hand Arms Race >  

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Wayne R.