Amanda Kitts Operates a Bionic Arm with her Brain at RIC (no sound)

Amanda Kitts, 40, from Knoxville, TN, demonstrates advanced hand control of the DEKA Research arm in a study at The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Amanda lost her left arm in an automobile accident and had the targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) procedure in 2006. Video courtesy of The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and DEKA Research. Learn more at www.ric.org/bionic.

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Science & Technology

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• bionic arm
• bionic arm demonstration
• Amanda Kitts
• Todd Kuiken
• DEKA Research
• RIC
• bionics
• TMR
• bionic arms

[bull3tpr00f]

Absolutely awesome

[ScobyWRX2]

This is amazing and god bless the people who made this possible for her

[zoveia]

is this by thougth?

[selearemus]

Wish I was born like 50 years in the future

[TheWillRogers]

engineer's don't get enough praise for this stuff.

[LucasPerez1421]

My bad. i forgot to say. Amazin and truly brave woman there.

[LucasPerez1421]

For the brain, the arm and the hand still exist. It can send little tiny 10 V electric signals thru the existin nervs. So what scientists do is amplify, digitalize and read those signals. Pretty amazin, really. Their work but also our nature.

[coolerooney1]

@filofeigondo it is brain controlled

[filofeigondo]

I wonder whether the movement is indeed controlled by her brain or by some other body parts, for instance feet. From its appearance, it looks like another variant of highly functional yet muscle-controlled DEKA arms. If it is indeed brain-controlled, it's revolutionary.

[BungeeRooster]

@ememyoyo wow you got to see the arm up close? I wish I could!

[Xaio30]

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