Photo via Johns Hopkins
Photo via Johns Hopkins

Another one to file under the Science is Awesome category: Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has engineered prosthetic arms that can be controlled with the mind.

The recipient of the robot arms, Les Baugh from Colorado, lost both his arms 40 years ago in an electrical accident. With his new arms, he has become the person in history to control his bionic limbs with his mind.

How does it work?

“It’s a relatively new surgical procedure that reassigns nerves that once controlled the arm and the hand,” says Johns Hopkins trauma surgeon Albert Chi. “By reassigning existing nerves, we can make it possible for people who have had upper-arm amputations to control their prosthetic devices by merely thinking about the action they want to perform.”

Wow. See how it works in the video below:

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