Dean Kamen's Robotic "Luke" Arm

[nightmarex66]

i want an arm that is directly attached to the CNS, so people can move it with their brain and NOT other parts of their body.

[Ichibanhaha]

If I had this happen to me - I'd be Terminator - the scene where he cuts his arm off for Miles Dyson. Makes the best out of life!!

[Ichibanhaha]

@Ichibanhaha for Halloween

[Ichibanhaha]

Didn't the inventor of Segway fall off a cliff on his segway??

[TheOriginalBattler]

Are they masturbating capable?

[akuarashi]

18 people don't have brains to operate their bionic arms

[Seany06]

DARPA..... getting Metal Gear Solid flashbacks heh

This is amazing.

[PsychedelicBrony]

Can I lose my arm just so I can get this XD

[IIIAnchani]

I'd like such an arm. I'd like it very strong, so I could choke someone darth vader style, but i don't like to lose an arm first ;D

[feelsgoodbro]

looks like it will cost an arm and a leg... :D

[postalpacifist88]

im not trying to sound like a dick but dean does kind of look like David sarif.

[yousogotmailed980]

more like a terminator arm

[thecakeistruth]

hes dedad

[Flippy1005onroblox]

man they have got to invent the automail prosthetic from fullmetal alchemist

[Kingdedede77]

I can't wait until our society in however long it takes can perfect a robotic arm. So that it's just like a human's but robotic.

[Buddhabright]

Needs rocket fist.

[MisterZimbabwe]

So wait... what if we attach two of these to a person who ISN'T an amputee? Would it be possible for the human brain to manage using 4 arms at once? It either won't work or productivity will skyrocket.

[Baseshocks]

@MisterZimbabwe i doubt it, with these arms they attach it to your existing nervous system, when they move their arms they imagine that they still have their hands by moving it with their minds. watch this video they explain it more "Man Controls Robotic Hand with Mind".

[lllTWIINlll]

is someone turning on and off a PS3 in the background.

[psychonaut25]

Deus Ex

[tsl3161991]

i think it should be myoelectrically controlled (for those who don't know, myoelectric means controled with sensors that transmit muscle contractions from residual muscles to control a prosthetic). i saw on Dean of Invention that it is controlled with a motion sensitive ankle brace, which in my opinion seems too primitive.

[Robots4Sale]

I build robots and need people to help me. Email me if you have ideas or knowledge, or simply wish you could build robots, exoskeletons, remote control items etc.

[DarkSectorMaster]

if we're this far I hope we get to something like automail so then its like we never lost a limb its just metal

[snark69]

This is so freaking awesome. Now begin on a full exoskeleton for quadriplegics so they can walk. Then you will be complete. Good job absolutely amazing.

[TheStitch1000]

im sorry, but did the lady in the beginning say "DERPA"?

[Phantom8941]

@TheStitch1000 DARPA

[Thereis1]

Ironic they can build an advanced prosthesis but only post in 240p video. Lame.

[LotsofLights]

AMAZING

[booyalakasha1]

cant wait to see what we'll have 20 years from now. bravo

[zoebiflap]

needs more Gatling guns

[KaizoeOcshtau]

@zoebiflap

Everything needs more dakka, even the dakka needs more dakka to the dakka of the dakka!

[RandomM0D]

I didn't ask for this.

[TheGhostman05]

@RandomM0D good one i just finish playing that game lol

[winmac2565]

Amazing bravo

[splendidmate]

I almost wish i was missing an arm.

I wonder if it would be possible to power something like this using energy that comes from the body, rather than relying on batteries.

[CuddlyCuddleFish]

@splendidmate No it isn't. I have been working on this type of thing for years and can tell you that the electrical signals sent from the brain to the rest of the body are not strong enough to power any machine without any sort of boost. Or rather, not efficiently.

[splendidmate]

@CuddlyCuddleFish interesting... I guess it will have to rely on some sort of awesome future battery.

[CuddlyCuddleFish]

@splendidmate It really just needs a way to boost the signal. However it would still need another energy source. Just in case.

[Metroid225]

Myoneural integration.

I'm waiting, biologists.

[opsimathics]

@Metroid225 funds.

we are waiting, Government.

[Metroid225]

@opsimathics what's funny is that you can grow artificial cells with cheap kits. hell, synthesize your own organisms. :)

[tanis143]

Wow, now when we can do real nerve mapping, we can hardwire these devices to use the original nerves. Then they will be true replacement limbs.

[CuddlyCuddleFish]

@tanis143 That technology already exists, albeit not to a point where we can truly use it. Electrodes are directly attached to the nerve endings so that the brain can send it's signal to the limb. Don't worry. 20 years or so and cybernetic prosthesis will be commonplace.

[deltacompony12]

They should make a leg, a head, and a body... plus the bulletproof skin they found out now and make a terminator

[Veboye]

does anyone know the study of this field. is it like robotics or something?

[Assassin6456]

@Veboye Biomechatronics.

[zetalore]

My condoleances for Dean Kamen, its too sad that a man who supports technology for mankind like that died, your dream lives on forever.

[Sahuagin]

@zetalore Dean Kamen didn't die, Jimi Heselden did.

[zetalore]

@Sahuagin good then im going to kill the person who wrongly wrote that article >:(

[smellmyclock]

@Sahuagin dumb shit, he said his technology, not him

[Sahuagin]

@smellmyclock maybe you should try reading it again, slowly this time

[AnEvilBastard]

So how long until the cybernetic arms become superior to real ones?

[GESSO217]

@AnEvilBastard could take a while.

[1337soldiahs]

I never asked for this.

[xXxENTExXx]

vid from 2008, want to see how far they came :o amazing

[MannyKunV]

2:57

"He rapes"

.... <.<

[Jorjeca]

NICE

[peshozmiata]

That's a pretty cool arm!

[YoungBlood20101]

it would be sooo freakin cool if they made one that could connect to the nerves of the amputated area, and allow u to use it exactly like your old arm ;)

[jonadamich]

that is f'in insane

[Potato25Chip]

I mite hav to cut off my arm and earn lots of money to get one of those xD jus kiddin but thats really cool

[TangIsHere]

The white version of Jax in MK

[Rolandeq]

Brilliant! Let the guy operate power tools 4:26, maybe then you can make him a terminator eye! XD No i'm kidding... i think it's great although that bit scared me for a moment.

[audiophil92]

Imagine masturbating with that thing

[SteelSkin667]

@audiophil92 Imagine masturbating again after 26 years! :D

[strangegibbss]

Thats Sick!  I think I'd get a Cyton instead though

[sartanko]

So the armless guy is controlling it? It's not remote controlled?

[laestrella1999]

@sartanko

No, there are pedals in the foot

[TheRobloxgamemaster]

Beleive That

[Grey13Human]

DAMN. We live in the future!

[Thrawn369]

@Blazureokami

Exactly. I'm against war, but I think the only ways to stop it are either making the UN essentially a world government so there isn't really anyone to go to war with, or "civilian based national defence" which is training everyone to resist invaders non-violently either to destroy the enemies will to occupy or sap morale as an armed resistance fights back. I think war can be ended, but sitting around saying how horrible it is isn't helping anyone

[ClockworkFacility1]

@Blazureokami and I would also question whether signing on for murder is the same thing as signing on for a decent job.

[ClockworkFacility1]

@Blazureokami I'm from Britain, and as far as i can see, the only two wars which Brits have been involved in which war was justifiable as an option were WW2 and the Falklands. The point i'd raise here is that as human beings we have that great thing called conscience. We can do the right thing. Unfortunately that gives us the responsibility to do the right thing, even if the worst seems easy. We don't have to fight. We can have peace. And anyone who needs a god damn robotic arm can have one.

[ClockworkFacility1]

@Blazureokami Ok i see you're point. these people are debilitated beyond measure and anything we can do to help them could be really supportive and all that. I still don't agree that they are morally redeemable.

[acr2121]

can this go as fast a human arm? like can it go as fast as if had been doing it for years?

[AQWTheAsterisk]

@acr2121

Probably not. The thing isn't for fighting or playing video games or anything.It's an arm meant to do normal arm stuff.

[acr2121]

@AQWTheAsterisk not talking about fighting or playing video games, what if both of your forearms are gone and you get these, then you decide to go out and drive your car or motorcycle. you need some faster reaction times than these things seem to have.

[audiophil92]

@acr2121 only a matter of time until they can match the reaction and finesse capabilities of a normal arm. They might even surpass them!

[MrNoisee]

and that is how the Skynet began...

[Truzzetyv]

i knew this day would come

[cruelcomedy]

who the fuck dislikes this type of innovation? we will always have retards in the world...

[ClockworkFacility1]

I don't mean to sound harsh, but they should not be making these for veterans.

[TheMuffinBurgler]

@ClockworkFacility1 Why not? They're the most likely to be missing limbs out of the general public.

[ClockworkFacility1]

@TheMuffinBurgler But the least deserving.

[Akeche]

@ClockworkFacility1 Fuck you.

You deserve no politeness, I don't give a shit what you think about war. I don't like them either, but that doesn't mean a veteran is less deserving so once again.

Fuck you.

[ClockworkFacility1]

@Akeche What about people who lose limbs in fires? Factories all over china? indian sweatshops? There are so many people who have lost limbs by accidents and situations outside their control. I don't agree with war, but that's not the point i'm trying to raise. Soldiers of US and UK armies have signed up as paid work to put themselves in mortal risk every day. They should therefore be further down the list. They know full well the risks of war and yet they go into it anyway.

[maxergud]

@ClockworkFacility1 I would like to agree completely, but I think it's putting it a little black-and white-ish.

[Axlgrease89]

@ClockworkFacility1 That's a calling most people wouldn't understand. We're not murder for hire. I reccomend a trip to your local VFW and just talk to the veterans there.

[ClockworkFacility1]

@Axlgrease89 I would argue that you are.

[Axlgrease89]

@ClockworkFacility1 *shrugs* Words on a screen.

[olesto]

its cool, but why did they make a left arm? :P

[success4111]

they forgot the most important thing, soft rubber to jack your dick off.

[Domanimus]

"I've been able to do things with this arm that I haven't seriously done in 26 years..."

"like what?"

"uhh...."

@4:40

[elidrissii]

@Domanimus And it's funny because after, he says pick up a banana..

[piepowa]

Im gonna build a better one.

[mattman91c]

1:20..... Is that an older Jimmy Kimmel?

[BigSean1992]

i notice how weird people look without arms, he looked kind of like a potato or a jelly bean lol and i love technology too but i creeps me out seeing this stuff then imagining it being used on AI enabled robots so terminator or I robot can happen =(

[undead432]

@BigSean1992 or cortana

i'm less worried about frenzy ai robots and more about human leaders

[BigSean1992]

@undead432 humans are easy to kill, starvation, poison, lack of oxygen robots need none of those... hell they dont even need to sleep...

[h19v91]

@BigSean1992 They do however have maintenance breaks. Sleep is actually a maintenance break from a biological point of view. You either take the time to do those, or function till you break.

[BigSean1992]

@h19v91 so what? one maintenance break every week? month? with replaceable parts it would take hours at most to get the robot back in the fight, my only point is that AI should NEVER be coupled the either mobile machines or machines that have weapons mounted on them. just how i feel about it, but then i dont trust Software for anything lol

[h19v91]

@BigSean1992 Those squishy squishy humans with no replaceable parts... 

[BigSean1992]

@h19v91 DAMN MY SQUISHY BITS lol

[Heathen531]

They have been talking about the "Luke arm" for years now. Does anyone have any idea where a non-vetran can get one of these? 

[Scolar82]

I hope this comes into clinical trials. I'm asking my doctor on the 7th. Fingers crossed I can use my arm again.

[CharmieKid]

O hey, it's Kat's husband!

[CharmieKid]

I WANT ONE!

[iChayce]

Clone a new arm, attach it to ur body?

[colonist067]

@iChayce I think in the near future patients would have a choice of going cybernetic for their lost limb or biological.

[IXCHELXI]

Good work guys keep it going and making improvements. It's a good deed.

[HybridWaterMan2]

Nice work! We have a come a long way in 30 years! Won't be long and bionics are going to be indistinguishable from the real thing...

[wargarkaz]

3:45 I'd lol if the Arm Lagged and Crush the Old guy Hand

[wargarkaz]

Sho tht to peoples "Guys i r terminator. dont fuck w/ meh"

[GMMReviews]

If I was this guy... with no arms...and I finally got a robotic arm I would Scratch the itch I've had for like 20 years, then go have a wank if you haven't in like years ;)

[BigBenP]

Science! It works bitches!

[Vanadil85]

This is what Science is for!

[Mcscooterscot]

nice name that is my name

[Freemmaann]

I had a smile on my face the entire video. I love technology..

[MrOttomon]

Cost is $100,000

[elvispiss]

480 000 searched for 6y

[Mudstep5956]

and people say mankind is not progressing.

[fatulalaloo]

I lost my arm two years ago, in an electrical accident. I'd really like to get a hold of that shoulder and hand. How do you get some of that equipment? Looking for any volunteers? I'd come up and test stuff. My shoulders disarticulated.

[dwisdom10]

That guy is a fucking cyborg now! Win!

[machinmanidol2]

that makes me smile ^^

[flashkillerffff]

when she asks what are you able to do with your new arm

he wanted to say "i finally can jerk off"

but went "Uhhh Amm , i can peel a banana" xD

no offense intended , i respect the guy

[CodeWarriorx0539]

go go gadget arm

[saharath45]

If the robot arm can shoot lasers or fire that would be really good in war.

[XtremeItachou]

Beginning of mecha-augmentation of Deus Ex !

[PretzalKnot]

does he have a right arm?

[aurrorra]

Picking fights with people with these bad boys would be awesome.

"Motherfuckers got robot arms!"

[nemesis0778]

who actually feels like cutting their own arm off just to get that? not me. it'd be cool but i doubt it would move AS fast as my original arm plus i wouldn't be able to type as fast as i used to. or play games like i used to

[Dumbass1794]

I would soooo have a machine gun on mine if i lost my arm! lol jk but it would be so badass to have a fully functional ( I mean a fluently moving arm, not quite like that one) robot arm on one hand from the hand to the elbow B)

[TheLifePerfect]

This is like the model-t of prosthetic robotic arms. Wait till you see the Veyron-SS

[MarlinJK97]

If I got into an accident, I would totally replace my hand/arm with a chainsaw.

[KawaiiOtakuShimai]

@psyphormer y ur right? 

[netsight]

4:41 like how he states that he's able to do things he hasn't for 26 years, reporter chuckles when he say's 'peel a banana' expecting him to say something like "hold "it" when taking a pee" after all that's what it's designed for - ie executing delicate tasks that require sensitive dexterity.

[fromstart2finish]

why are we not funding this research

[StDotEve]

i pure would cut my own arm off for one of those. go around in a leather jacket and ripp it off before i fight sombody. might lose the other arm but would look cool. xD

[KawaiiOtakuShimai]

@StDotEve just like the Fullmetal Alchemist! xD

[BaRd3L2]

@StDotEve me 2 lol

[LuSidLryics]

@StDotEve hahaha am doing a project on most important american inventions, and i'm so quoting you in my speech!!! LMFAO!

[CharmieKid]

@StDotEve *Constantly hacks at arm*

[Askitaka]

Hahahaha "uuuhhhhh pick up a banana?"

We all know what he really meant ;)

[Trinnaman0999]

Looks a bit like Kats arm out of Halo Reach

[theguywiththeremote]

@Trinnaman0999 well, now we all know what you were searching for when you stumbled across this video.

[H00D04]

This is exactly what I want to do when I graduate with my degree. I have a year and a bit to go, but this is so amazing. I remember when I was debating what school and degree to pursue. Then I saw Star Wars and was like "Hey I could build that!" Now these guys have gone and done it. Amazing! Good luck with the rest of the project and if your looking for a junior Electronic Engineer give me a shout. I'd love to work with you guys.

[Chamomileable]

won't be long until people are opting to have limbs removed so they can be replaced with cybernetics.

[Egglesplork]

_____We could have cyborg bodies now, but American and British doctors are too scared-sissy to do it. 1908, biomedical scientist Charles Guthrie successfully grafted one dog's head onto another body. In the late 1920s, Sergei Brukhonenko kept a dog's head alive using analog machinery... Keep in mind, this is BEFORE scientsts had microsurgery, nanotech and transplant-rejection drugs. Ah well, maybe the Chinese will make cyborgs while America won't?

[Misterwhalley88]

@Egglesplork all of those were failed experiments. Especially the one attaching one dog's head to another, as you can't repair or regrow the nerves in the spine, so you just have a dead head on a dead body. Not useful. There's more to consider than being too "sissy" to do it. For one, the proccessing power to control an arm like this just didn't exist until recent years, same with the battery power and control units.

Welcome to the real world, where science takes time and effort.

[Egglesplork]

@Misterwhalley88

_____"[Y]ou can't repair or regrow the nerves on the spine..." Where the HECK have you been these past three years? PLEASE look into work at Johns Hopkins, work by Vassilis Koliatsos, M.D.

_____"[Y]ou just have a dead head on a dead body." Okay, tell that to the multiple medical teams who have successfully maintained life in the heads of those who have survived a condition known as "internal decapitation."

[Egglesplork]

@Misterwhalley88

_____That's another thing. You sound like a quitter! "all of those were failed experiments." Thomas Alva Edison would have had a word to say to the likes of you. What's invention? One percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. Or maybe, humans should just give up on scientific and technological progress, go back to the savannah and be prey to carnivores? Typical postmodernist anarchy...

[Misterwhalley88]

@Egglesplork Sure buddy, you keep on trucking with your fantasy science. I'll stay here where people don't perform pointless, exploitative mad science projects with no results.

Invention, sadly, takes research, and patience, especially when dealing with human beings. Grow up

[Egglesplork]

@Misterwhalley88

_____You say that technological progress is "pointless" and "exploitative?" They are "mad science projects with no results"? I'm all for forms of technology that can make the crippled walk, the sick cured of illnesses, and the weak becoming strong. Postmodernists such as yourself don't give a damn if people remain crippled and helpless for the rest of their lives. You're an enemy to humanity. Go back to your cave.

[phaedruslive]

@Egglesplork The people who will eventually weaponize this technology are enemies of humanity.

[Egglesplork]

@phaedruslive

_____So what you're saying is, anything that can be made into a weapon ought to be banned? Hey, yeah! Let's see how far we can take your idea, dude. NEWSPAPERS can be rolled up and made to poke peoples' eyes out! (Do a Google search for "Millwall brick.") Ban 'em! You can turn a beer bottle into a freakin' Molitov cocktail, so let's ban BEER, CLOTH and FUEL! Then let's just chop off everybody's fingers 'cause THEY can be weapons. Or let's kill all humans, what you want.

[xPaoloSamax]

Ahora no me debo preocupar tanto si pierdo un brazo!

[marklvrd]

would this field be in Electronics Engineering, mechanical engineering, neural engineering subcategory of biomedical engineering or a dual degree in any of the 2 disciplines?

[stoltobot]

@marklvrd I would say a high level of focused expertise in either area would help you get a job in the field with a working knowledge of the others

[zeltia10]

@Numba1Wonder probably a form of carbon fibre, or alloy would be light and strong. regardless of what its made of, it would kick ass.

[TheSquishysquidTV]

i want my arm cutoff now

[HaRtBrEaKiiiD]

i really wish there's robotic arms as good as human arms.. life would really sucks without an arm seriously.. hope there's some genius invent it.. it's a great invention!

[endoTHEOSIS]

This man is a complete genius...an object of what I can only model what I would like to become.

[alvarengaadilson]

@endoTHEOSIS I can only agree with you since i feel the same. But let think hard and work harder so we can truly follow our heros.

[nut913]

that would be cool if he had SUPER MOTHER FUCKING STRENGTH

[Aawsy]

man...i have a unle that was electrocuted in an accident and he only has 1 arm with 3 fingers...its so hard for him i wouldnt want to live like that....only if i could buy this

[randomenvelope]

starwars, typical.

[silentshadow2828]

@HyugaStone87 sorry I forgot to add the 87 in your name ^^'

[silentshadow2828]

@HyugaStone ikr :3 it's not as cool looking and I think there's too much wires but still it's cool they've finally made automail :D