Todd Kuiken A prosthetic arm that feels

Dean Kamen previews a new prosthetic arm

Sheila Nirenberg A prosthetic eye to treat blindness

It's the development of a prosthetic device for treating blindness.

This is a really basic, basic prosthetic limb under here.

A prosthetic limb doesn't represent the need to replace loss anymore.

We realized that prosthetic makeup just wouldn't hold up, particularly in close up.

I mean, people Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do.

The monkey recognized that whatever she did with her arm, this prosthetic arm would do.

So this is what we've been working on, and this is what our prosthetic does.

Now, there's no use of prosthetic makeup or photography of Brad superimposed over another actor's body.

TK That's Claudia, and that was the first time she got to feel sensation through her prosthetic.

There's a limb prosthetic up here, similar actually one on the soldier that's come back from Iraq.

Now I want to close on one story, which we think is another possibility which is that maybe these molecules, if you can do ultra precise control, can be used in the brain itself to make a new kind of prosthetic, an optical prosthetic.

The Panel considers that the costs claimed for providing replacement prosthetic devices to 36 Kuwaiti amputees are reasonable.

It has its own external prosthetic devices, and these devices are helping us all to communicate and interact with each other.

They then hooked it up to a prosthetic arm, which you see here in the picture, put the arm in another room.

Then he put a video monitor in the monkey's cage that showed the monkey this prosthetic arm, and the monkey got fascinated.

It had a revolutionary prosthetic fitment and delivery system, a quick molding and modular components, enabling custom made, on the spot limb fitments.

And I was a guinea pig, as I hope to continue to be in every new form of prosthetic limbs that come out.

So not only can we create a prosthetic for the visually impaired, but we can also investigate how people literally make sense of the world.

14 hours of prosthetic make up to get into a creature that had articulated paws, claws and a tail that whipped around, like a gecko.

And then the transducer then makes the output cells send the code on up to the brain, and the result is a retinal prosthetic that can produce normal retinal output.

Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system improving motion, control and even feeling. Onstage, patient Amanda Kitts helps demonstrate this next gen robotic arm.

There are some drug treatments, but they're only effective on a small fraction of the population. And so, for the vast majority of patients, their best hope for regaining sight is through prosthetic devices.

Even without stimulation, mere recording devices such as brain controlled motor prostheses may alter the patient s personality. Patients will need to be trained in generating the appropriate neural signals to direct the prosthetic limb.

So this is really exciting for us, because now we have a portal, a portal, or a way to potentially give back sensation, so that he might feel what he touches with his prosthetic hand.

In this TED archive video from 1998, paralympic sprinter Aimee Mullins talks about her record setting career as a runner, and about the amazing carbon fiber prosthetic legs that helped her cross the finish line.

So at the time, it was my opportunity to put a call out to innovators outside the traditional medical prosthetic community to come bring their talent to the science and to the art of building legs.

Inventor Dean Kamen previews the prosthetic arm he s developing at the request of the US Department of Defense. His quiet commitment to using technology to solve problems while honoring the human spirit has never been more clear.

Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs she's got a dozen amazing pairs and the superpowers they grant her speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height ... Quite simply, she redefines what the body can be.

(b) Starting and developing production of new types of medical equipment and technical aids for the rehabilitation of incapacitated persons, including devices to restore natural mobility, special beds for burn patients, a device for removing kidney stones and orthopaedic and prosthetic devices

Today, I have over a dozen pair of prosthetic legs that various people have made for me, and with them I have different negotiations of the terrain under my feet, and I can change my height I have a variable of five different heights.

Soldiers who've lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives back with his design for a remarkable prosthetic arm.

Here are three sets of firing patterns. The top one is from a normal animal, the middle one is from a blind animal that's been treated with this encoder transducer device, and the bottom one is from a blind animal treated with a standard prosthetic.

So as you can see, the firing patterns from the blind animal treated with the encoder transducer really do very closely match the normal firing patterns and it's not perfect, but it's pretty good and the blind animal treated with the standard prosthetic, the responses really don't.

So I'm really a basic scientist, not a clinician, but in the last year and a half I've started to switch over, to use what we've been learning about these patterns of activity to develop prosthetic devices, and what I wanted to do today is show you an example of this.

And eventually she was moving it and moving it, and eventually stopped moving her right arm and, staring at the screen, could move the prosthetic arm in the other room only with her brainwaves which means that monkey became the first primate in the history of the world to have three independent functional arms.