The robotic arm looks like it came from the future, a sleek cyborg limb. But for Les Baugh, it’s a way to feel “back to human.”
Baugh, who lost his arms in a teenage accident, had surgery to remap the nerves in his arms to work with the high-tech prosthetic, developed by engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. The New York Times followed Baugh as he tested out the cutting-edge technology, which he’s been traning extensively to use This is one of around ten Modular Prosthetic Limbs (“MPL”) in the world.
Since the MPL is modular, so it can be customized to work with different missing limbs and different bodies, and it has 100 sensors, 26 joints, and the ability to curl up to 45 pounds in weight. And, yep, he can control it with his mind.
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