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Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune, August 1, 2005
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-080104bio...
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-080104bio...
Sullivan, a Tennessee power company worker who lost both arms in a job-related accident, has been outfitted by Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago researchers with a kind of bionic arm, which is controlled directly by his thoughts. Sullivan doesn't have to think hard anymore about doing something; he simply does it the way he always did. "I feel my hand when I want to pick something up, then I just close my hand," he says. When he wants to grab a bottle of water, for instance, the computerized arm moves forward, the elbow bends and the mechanical hand grasps the bottle, bringing it to his lips, as his natural arm once did.
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