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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race - IEEE Spectrum

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The prosthetics industry is too focused on high-tech limbs that are complicated, costly, and often impractical The author, Britt Young, holding her Ottobock bebionic bionic arm. IN JULES VERNE’S 1865 NOVEL From the Earth to the Moon, members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. They had spent the war innovating new, deadlier weaponry. By the war’s end, with “not quite one arm between four persons, and exactly two legs between six,” these self-taught amputee-weaponsmiths decide to repurpose their skills toward a new projectile: a rocket ship. The story of the Baltimore Gun Club propelling themselves to the moon is about the extraordinary masculine power of the veteran, who doesn’t simply “overcome” his disability; he derives power and ambition from it. Their “crutches, wooden legs, artificial arms, steel hooks, caoutchouc [rubber] jaws, silver craniums [and] platinum noses” don’t play leading roles in their

Robotics Magazine Feature October 2022 The Bionic-Hand Arms Race The prosthetics industry is too focused on high-tech limbs that are complicated, costly, and often impractical Britt H. Young 21 Aug 2022 12 min read Horizontal The author, Britt Young, holding her Ottobock bebionic bionic arm. Gabriela Hasbun. Makeup: Maria Nguyen for MAC cosmetics; Hair: Joan Laqui for Living Proof DarkGray In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans , restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. They had spent the war i

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