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Les Baugh is the first person to ever control two prosthetic limbs using only his mind. Over 40 years ago he lost both arms in an electrical accident, and now he’s made history using his brain to control two robotic arms. -Source

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Mr Les Baugh & his two bionic arms.

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»TECHTUESDAY | Les Baugh - 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.”

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Homem controla próteses apenas com o pensamento

Homem controla próteses apenas com o pensamento

Les Baugh perdeu os dois braços num acidente, há 40 anos, mas com a ajuda do Laboratório de Física Aplicada ( DARPA- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), da Universidade Johns Hopkins, é, agora, capaz de controlar um conjunto Modular Prosthetic Limbs, apenas com a mente. Tudo o que ele tem de fazer é pensar nos movimentos que quer fazer com os seus braços, e eles movem-se. Nada é…

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Double amputee controls two robotic arms with his mind

Here's one other DARPA-funded robotic limb controlled by thoughts alone -- actually make that two, because Colorado man Les Baugh had two bionic arms attached from shoulder level. Baugh got them this summer, 40 years after losing both arms, as part of a Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program test run at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. The project's researchers have been developing these Modular Prosthetic Limbs (MPL) over the past decade, but they say Baugh is the "first bilateral shoulder-level amputee" to wear two MPLs at the same time. Unlike Jan Scheuermann who controlled a robotic arm with a pair of neural implants, though, Baugh had to undergo a procedure called targeted muscle reinnervation, which reassigned the nerves that once controlled his arms and hands.

Once that was done, the team recorded the patterns his brain makes for each muscle he moves, and then they had him control virtual arms to prepare for the real things. Since his arms were cut off from the shoulder, they also had to design a custom socket for his torso where the prosthetics can be attached. All their preparations were worth it in the end, though, as Baugh turned out to be a brilliant test subject: after just 10 days of training, he was already moving cups from one shelf to the other just by thinking it.