A Prosthetic Arm That Gives Amputees the Sense of Touch
Darpa develops a prosthetic limb you can feel.
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Innovator: Geoffrey Ling
Age: 58
Director of the biological technologies office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Form and function
The modular prosthetic limb, an arm built at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) under a Darpa prosthetics program, has sensors and processing power to give amputees direct neural control and the feeling of touch.