The US government just gave someone a $120-million [mind-controlled] robotic arm to use for a year

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https://qz.com/1194939/the-us-gover...-a-120-million-robotic-arm-to-use-for-a-year/

Johnny Matheny is the first person to live with an advanced mind-controlled robotic arm. Last December, researchers from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab delivered the arm to Matheny at his home in Port Richey, Florida. Aside from the occasional demo, this is the first time the Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL) has spent significant time out of the lab.

Johns Hopkins has received more than $120 million from the US Defense Department to help pay for the arm’s development over the past 10 years.

Matheny, who lost his arm to cancer in 2005, is the first person to live with the MPL, but there are plans to have others try it out this year. There are a few things Matheny is not allowed to do with the arm, like getting it wet or drive while wearing it. But beyond that, the goal is to push the robotic prosthetic to its limits.

Watch the video above to see the moment Matheny was given the arm, and find out why he was picked to be the first person to have it.

 

[Gomig-21]

That's crazy! Terminator is finally here!

 

[KAL-EL]

On our way to the Six Million Dollar Man.

Well, adjusting for dollars.To rebuild Colonel Steve Austin in modern times would be a hell of a lot more than six million dollars.

 

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On our way to the Six Million Dollar Man.

Well, adjusting for dollars.To rebuild Colonel Steve Austin in modern times would be a hell of a lot more than six million dollars.

...Johnny Matheny will be that man

 

[Gomig-21]

On our way to the Six Million Dollar Man.

Well, adjusting for dollars.To rebuild Colonel Steve Austin in modern times would be a hell of a lot more than six million dollars.

Inflation. Now the arm alone is $120 mill.

But those of us who grew up on the Six Million Dollar Man that was the greatest thing ever, especially the classic sound effect.

 

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Inflation. Now the arm alone is $120 mill.

But those of us who grew up on the Six Million Dollar Man that was the greatest thing ever, especially the classic sound effect.

The show was before my time, but my dad was really into it growing up. Through him I got into it. I especially loved the bigfoot episodes and when he went up against the "7 million dollar man"

On a related note, I loved watching Jamie Summers go up against the Fembots

 

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Inflation. Now the arm alone is $120 mill.

But those of us who grew up on the Six Million Dollar Man that was the greatest thing ever, especially the classic sound effect.

For some reason I always remember this scene where he javelin tosses a cement pole into a truck (of course the silly bigfoot thing was the most memorable plus Oscar's robot double crushing a pen)

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Of course back then the Brits were making lots of cool sci-fi