Life is never the same after losing an arm or leg, and most amputees rue the fact that their prosthetics don’t really feel like a part of their body. Here’s some good news: market players and researchers alike are coming up with new technology that can make an artificial limb read your mind.
California-based company Atom Limbs is perfecting an artificial arm that uses AI and machine learning to read electrical signals from the brain and move itself around accordingly. BBC journalist Paul Carter tried it out and proclaimed, “The arm has a full range of human motion in the elbow, wrist and individual fingers — and it provides haptic feedback (vibrations) to the wearer on their grip strength.” It doesn’t need surgery or implants; a neural interface connects the artificial arm to the brain. Carter, who was born without lower arms and legs and has used various prosthetics, found the arm much lighter.
