artificial arm

I remember some of the professor’s ideas: “You can talk about an artificial arm, but not about pain in an artificial arm.”

Eventually, soft “neuromorphic” computer chips could be implanted directly into the brain, allowing people to control an artificial arm or a computer monitor simply by thinking about it.

Once his favorite toys, the plastic bricks became the building material for Aguilar’s first, still very rudimentary, artificial arm at the age of nine, and each new version had more movement capability than the one before.

“I wanted to ... see myself in the mirror like I see other guys, with two hands,” said Aguilar, who uses the artificial arm only occasionally and is self-sufficient without it.

“He said he deliberately did not adjust to his artificial arm because he enjoyed being there so much,” Bonnie said.