Watch This Double Amputee Make History As He Controls Two Robotic Limbs With His Mind

Les Baugh lost both his arms forty years ago. Recently the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has been working with him in their development of Modular Prosthetic Limbs, with Baugh undergoing a procedure that “reassigned the nerves that once controlled his arms and hands.” Then they made history, with Baugh’s being the “first time the MPLs were operated by a shoulder-level amputee with the full three degrees of freedom, and with over thirty total degrees of motion on both sides with complete intuitive thought-based control.”

This is all pretty damn cool, basically.

(via Engadget)

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