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"Luke" Arm

Posted February 06, 2008 11:33 AM

From MAKE Magazine:

Here's an incredible video from IEEE Spectrum on the new robotic arm Dean Kamen's DEKKA group is working on, it's inspired by robotic arm in Star Wars that Luke Skywalker had

Read the whole article and watch the video

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02/07/2008 8:55 AM

That is freaking awesome! I don't know what else to say...it's just awesome. The intricacy of the controls just seems so much more practical than past attempts.

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