(CNN)-- About 17 years ago, Keven Walgamott lost his left hand and part of his forearm in an electrical accident. Now, Walgamott can use his thoughts to tell the fingers of his bionic hand to pick ...

In its latest iteration, the motorized "Luke arm" -- named for Star Wars hero Luke Skywalker's robotic limb in The Empire Strikes Back-- delivers a sense of touch via electrodes implanted in the ...

The LUKE Arm sends signals to the brain in order to mimic the way a human hand can feel and sense information about an object, like whether it’s soft, hard, lightweight or heavy. Neuralink ...

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After Luke Skywalker's arm gets light-sabered off in Star Wars, he gets a pretty awesome new bionic arm. Of course, that fresh limb is the work of the creative George Lucas and movie magic ...

The team dubbed it the "Luke Skywalker" arm, after one of the main characters in the Star Wars trilogy who used a similar device after losing his arm in a light saber attack. The device will need ...

“It almost put me to tears,” Walgamott said after using the LUKE Arm for the first time in 2017. “It was really amazing. I never thought I would be able to feel in that hand again.” The ...