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Woman's experimental bionic hand passes major test
- GravityLab 3y agoThis is amazing. Soon we'll be at the bionic arms featured in iRobot.
- chrsw 3y agoNo, not soon.
- GravityLab 3y agoDo you think it's possible in 20 years?
- tycho-newman 3y agoDoes it come with attachments?
- elil17 3y agoNot sure why you're downvoted here - in the video they show at least one non-hand attachment, a computer terminal which lets her control a virtual hand for training purposes. Two wires run from her implants to the terminal.
- kwhitefoot 3y agoPeople probably thought that they had a particular kind of attachment in mind. One that can't be mentioned in polite society.
- viraptor 3y agoWhat, a dildo? It can be mentioned in a polite society. Just not in a prude one. (Now, whether it's a reasonable question or just being immature is another thing...)
- malfist 3y agoOr people thought asking if a prosthetic, which is an attachment, came with an attachment to be a pointless question
- tycho-newman 3y agoWhy not a leatherman attachment?
- tycho-newman 3y agoI will not be strong-armed into silence!
- causi 3y agoand provides sensory feedback This seems like a major achievement that's just casually tossed in there with no ceremony or explanation.
- distortionfield 3y agoI thought the same thing, feels like they buried the lede there a bit. I have a ton of questions, including if this could at all benefit from an approach like Toyota's robotics team recently demonstrated.
- autoexec 3y agoI've seen some amazing prosthetics on the internet, I've been seeing them for decades, but none of them get wide use. They're either all "experimental" or so insanely expensive that nobody can get them. These kinds of articles can make us feel good about science and hopeful about our future, but the reality is that the people who need these things are basically never going to have one or anything close to one.
- Dig1t 3y agoYou’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t. Look how much hatred there is for Neuralink. A company actually trying to productize and bring to market a device that will allow quadriplegic people to move and walk again, which could restore life for so many people who need help and have no other options. So if you do try to bring it to market you’re pilloried by the press and everyone online and if you don’t it’s sad because it seems like there’s nobody trying to make the technology accessible.
- notaustinpowers 3y agoI think the main concern with Neuralink isn't so much the technology/mission itself, it's Elon. We've seen with his other companies how he runs testing. Blow up rocket after rocket after rocket until it goes right. And even when it does go right, cause catastrophic damage to the launch pad, damage they were warned would happen. With earth Tesla Autopilots it was very finicky and absolutely should have gone through more in-house training rather than releasing it to the public, calling it a "beta" and hoping for the best. We've seen his track record and have a perceived idea of how he prefers to advance technology. That's why a lot of people are very nervous about him putting a chip into people's brains.
- Dig1t 3y agoIf you’ve ever built anything you know that the only way anything gets built is with iteration. There are very few examples in history where something new got built and was a perfect finished product v1. The way we build new things is making something, testing it, measuring the outcome and then using the information to build v2. Look at literally every product ever built, that’s how it was made. Rockets especially need this treatment, you have to blow up a lot of rockets to refine the process in any reasonable time frame. It’s not just Elon’s methodology that’s all new things. How many iPhone prototypes do you think they created before they shipped the first one? Neuralink is doing the same thing with lab animals, which by the way is an established practice used in all of science. The end result will be a cure for people who desperately need it and it will be within our lifetime if they are allowed to continue without regulatory roadblocks.
- altruios 3y agoin a 'perfect' future: we would cut off our own limbs to get the nimble-tron 5000 with magnetic finger extensions and predictive AI that totally doesn't strangle anyone even a little. I joke... but I unironically can't wait for replacement limb tech to be that desirable. Imagine the upgrades people would get...
- Aisen8010 3y agoThe vision and ideas from the game Deus Ex are waiting to happen.
- lo_zamoyski 3y agoThis is not an "upgrade". A replacement is a concession, a patch, a crutch, a mere instrument. It doesn't matter if the crutch can crack open Brazil nuts or turn your TV on or allow you to fetch the keys that fell behind the fridge. Metaphysically, it is always an inferior, if sophisticated, instrument. Ridding yourself of perfectly good limbs to replace them with an instrument is not only a "downgrade", but gravely and grotesquely immoral. You can blame the incoherent travesty that is mechanistic metaphysics for the strange notion it is otherwise.
- altruios 3y agowhoa... hold on there... I replace my 2080ti with a 4080ti... is that's not an upgrade: that's instead categorically always a 'patch' to you? metaphysically - a replacement says nothing to the quality of replacement. Silly to think any change on anything is always for the worse... A replacement can also be an upgrade. those are not mutually exclusive labels.
- snapcaster 3y agoWhy don't you see the arms you were born with as an "instrument"?
- the_doctah 3y agoThe technological singularity actually occurs when the prosthetic hand gives a hand jibber unrecognizable from a real one.
- roarcher 3y agoThis is pretty amazing, but I wonder--how does the body adapt to having a piece of hardware that extends through the skin? Does the body not see this as an open wound? It seems like being permanently impaled with a metal pole.
- dexwiz 3y agoNot a doctor, but semipermanent ports are common. I imagine with the right coatings and materials, we know how to manage natural rejection.
- Thebroser 3y agoWould probably assume some level of immunosuppressants might be necessary.
- failrate 3y agoLike an earring? The skin typically forms a fistula-like sheath around the metal.
- munificent 3y agoA fistula from a piercing connects two surface exits to each other, like a wormhole through your body. Once complete, the piercing touches nothing internal to you, just skin. But in this case, the prosthetic must penetrate through the skin to connect to bone.
- braymundo 3y agoKarin Silverhand.
- ge96 3y agoThat is metal af drilled into the bone. Edging closer to cyberpunk This is the kind of stuff I wish I worked on tech wise, I genuinely feel empathy
- IlPeach 3y agoAnother nameless woman in the title FFS.
- globular-toast 3y agoThe woman shouldn't be in the title at all. This is about the bionic hand, not her.