This 3 day old account keeps posting crappy articles from the same sketchy website. Probably best to block it.
Interview video of her using the arm / talking about other prosthetics.
Utubepublisher, first, as always in trusted news.
Not true. The arm is controlled via muscle sensors and their preivous model did the same thing. Made me look it up, they launched that in 2017. The sensing tech wasn’t even new then, the big claim to fame was that it was 3D printed, cheap and could be fitted to children.
Why lie about it? The real story is already cool. Needless misinformation pisses me off.
Yah I saw one of these things demoed way back in like 2018 at a tech convention.
The Hero Pro bionic arms, the creation of robotics engineer Joel Gibbard, a co-founder of Open Bionics, are made of 3D-printed lightweight materials that are muscle-operated. But their magic lies in the wireless technology and intelligent design.
Controlled by two muscle sensors, Tilly can now open and close the hand, cycle through grip modes, and even fine-tune pressure strength
It’s even in the article.
Like, at which point do we start saying we are controlling things with our minds? When I am cutting a steak with a knife and fork, am I controlling the utensils with my thoughts? Maybe. Am I also controlling the steak with my mind/thoughts, by proxy? Where’s the line?
Like, if she had a chip implanted on her brain, then I’ll consider it controlling with only her thoughts. But this is just straight-up “manual” control.
Well, the irony of that one is that not needing surgery or implants is the more advanced solution, even if it’s less… superficially cyberpunky, I guess?
People really like the Elon Musk-y thing where you implant chips to read stuff from your brain, but it’s actually a lot cooler to pick up the chain from the place it got severed without having to go putting things inside people (or cutting into them at all, if possible).
