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Artificial arms move at the speed of thought

Prosthetic limbs controlled by thought alone could soon be capable of making more complex movements. Researchers in the US who developed the technique earlier in the year used an approach called targeted muscle reinnervation to control the motorised prosthetic. The same team have now built new pattern recognition software by asking volunteers to imagine making a broad range of movements. The software can distinguish between the electrical signals produced by 16 different arm and hand movements.

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