Amputee Makes History with APL s Modular Prosthetic Limb

Meet Les Baugh. Les had both arms amputated at the shoulder after a freak electrical accident 40 years ago. Now he s the first person to successfully use the bilateral shoulderdown modular prosthetic limbs developed by the doctors and scientists at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Each arms operates with a full 3degrees of freedom and over 30degrees of motion, and are controlled intuitively simply by thinking of moving a specific part. From watching the video, the technology obviously has a ways to go, but it s definitely a big step in the right direction. One of the scientists interviewed even references in five to ten years from now, he expects to be developing robotic prosthetics so advanced people will actually be cutting their own limbs off to get them