
Revolutionizing Prosthetics
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News from APL

Johns Hopkins APL Restores Cold Sensation in Amputees’ Phantom Limbs Jul 27, 2023

Johns Hopkins APL Uses Virtual Reality to Teach Children of Servicemen and Women About Prosthetics May 23, 2017

Johns Hopkins APL to Teach Children of Wounded Warriors About Prosthetics Using Virtual Reality Jun 6, 2016

APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb Reaches New Levels of Operability Jan 12, 2016

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Receives $4 Million to Develop a Retinal Prosthesis Jan 14, 2015

Amputee Makes History with APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb Dec 16, 2014

APL-Developed Prosthetic Limb System Featured on the Cover of Popular Mechanics Apr 19, 2012

Johns Hopkins APL Collaborates with Facebook’s Building 8 to Develop Breakthrough Brain–Computer Interface Technologies Apr 19, 2017

DARPA Gives APL-Led Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 Team Green Light for Phase 2 Feb 4, 2008

Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 Team Receives Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award Oct 12, 2007

Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 Team Delivers First DARPA Limb Prototype Apr 26, 2007

APL to Lead Team Developing Revolutionary Prosthesis Feb 9, 2006
Awards
- 2016: First-Place Annual Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) Award
- 2016: APL Named One of Fast Company Magazine’s Most Innovative Companies of 2016 for Healthcare, for the Modular Prosthetic Limb Breakthrough
- 2015: First-Place Annual Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) Award
- 2014: Top-Ten Annual Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) Award
News From DARPA
Multimedia
Program Videos
- This Mind-Controlled Bionic Arm Can Touch and Feel
- APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb Reaches New Levels of Operability
- Amputee Makes History with APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb
- Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL) v2.0 (9 minutes)
- Modular Prosthetic Limb v1.0: Hand Motion
- Bimanual Control of Prototypes
- Proto 2 Extrinsic Hand with and without Cosmesis
- Jon Kuniholm Demonstrates Electromyographic Control of the Prototype 2 Intrinsic Hand
- Jesse Sullivan Demonstrates Prototype 1 at RIC
- Frere Jacques
Related Videos
- Artificial Intelligence Colloquium: A New Paradigm of Brain-Computer Interface (DARPAtv, March 26, 2019)
- The most advanced prosthetic in the world (TEDx, July 24, 2018)
- The first person to live with a mind-controlled robotic arm is teaching himself piano (Quartz, June 5, 2018)
- The US government just gave someone a $120-million robotic arm to use for a year (Quartz, February 2, 2018)
- Prosthetic Limbs, Controlled by Thought (The New York Times, May 20, 2015)
- Breakthrough: Robotic limbs moved by the mind (60 Minutes, December 30, 2012)
- Meet "Robo Sally" (60 Minutes, December 30, 2012)
- Todd Kuiken: A prosthetic arm that “feels” (TED.com, July 2011)