{"id":3244,"date":"2005-04-11T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T18:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2005-04-11T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T18:11:07","slug":"darpa-watch-robot-replacement-limbs-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/darpa-watch-robot-replacement-limbs-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Watch: Robot Replacement Limbs on the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nDarpa, the Pentagon&#8217;s blue-sky research division, now wants to ratchet that work up about ten notches, by developing a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/archives\/001478.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore full motor and sensory capability to upper extremity amputee patients. This revolutionary prosthesis will be controlled, feel, look and perform like the native limb<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Darpa wants the robo-arm stat &#8212; in four years or less.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So when some military madman chases you down like a rabbit, beats you down like a dog, cuts your arm off, and <i>then <\/i>announces that he&#8217;s your dad, you&#8217;ll have a way to replace what was lost.<\/p>\n<p>Plus: No more lonely nights.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/robots\/darpa-wants-replacement-arms-by-2009-039343.php\" class=\"external external_icon\">gizmodo<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darpa, the Pentagon&#8217;s blue-sky research division, now wants to ratchet that work up about ten notches, by developing a &#8220;neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore full motor and sensory capability to upper extremity amputee patients. This revolutionary prosthesis will be controlled, feel, look and perform like the native limb.&#8221; [&#8230;] Darpa wants the robo-arm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}