Robotic Arm video from 07 championships

[lancerbotics]

Does anyone have the video that was shown at the 07 championships of the robotic arm that Dean's company has designed? One of the mentors for our team is teaching a biomechanics class and they are designing a robotic arm for the class and I want to show them that video so that they get an idea of how far the technology has come.

[bigbeezy]

I believe that that video is on our website.

team1592.com

The website is a work in progress at the moment, but i believe that the video that you arer refering to is on the front page.

[lbridgwater]

Not to begin an argument, but it can be debated just how much the DEKA arm has pushed the level of technology. That having been said it is quite an achievement that DEKA did that work in less than a year.

The following links are for the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) program that was also initiated at the same time as the DEKA team.

http://www.wired.com/science/discove.../08/bionic_arm
http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pre...007/070426.asp

The DEKA team and JHU team are part of the revolutionizing prosthetics program of DARPA. The DARPA program is described at the following link:
http://www.darpa.mil/dso/thrusts/bio...rost/index.htm

The DEKA team was given the near impossible task of doing a full limb prosthetic with readily available technology within the weight and size requirements close to that of a human arm, oh and less than a year to do it. The JHU team was told to go crazy and find technology that is still in R&D and force the technology to grow into the realm that prosthetics needs. They were also given an additional year or two to do it.