Dean Kamen’s “Luke Arm” Prosthesis Readies for Clinical Trials

February 1, 2008 | Source: KurzweilAI

Dean Kamen’s “Luke arm”–a prosthesis named for the remarkably lifelike prosthetic worn by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars–came to the end of its two-year funding last month.

Its fate now rests in the hands of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which funded the project.