Robotic Arm For Amputees: Reflective Paper

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Robotic Arm for Amputees: Reflective Paper My project has to do with robotic arms for amputees and ways I could help improve them. I chose this topic because I have always been interested in the human body and medical innovations. Now I really did not know much about prosthetic limbs or robotics, but it did interest me greatly, so I was willing to learn. Through my work I learned that there are more than one type of robotic prosthetic arms and the different ways of making them move. For example you can either connect the arm to the remaining muscles that are left in the amputated arm or you can connect it directly to the brain using the electric signals to communicate with the robotic arm. There were some problems that I did run into, one being

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