Utah Business Feature: A Utah-made bionic hand moves with your thoughts — and actually feels what it touches

“Hopefully, brilliant doctors and clinicians around the world will find a use for this ability to read and write the data, like, what is the brain saying to your kidney? What does your kidney say to your brain?” Miller says.

In a world where prosthetic limbs have settled for “good enough” for more than a century, Miller believes this leap forward shows that a near-normal quality of life is possible and worth striving for.

“Rather than giving people enough to get by, you’re going to be more focused on restoring complete functionality and complete quality of life. And I hope it’s a really bright, exciting time for people.”

The first application of this direct-nerve interface is with a robotic arm named LUKE (Life Under Kinetic Evolution), and its back by over 30,000 hours of human data and custom AI trained on the body’s electrical signals.

Read full story here: BIOS bionic arm: Holding his wife’s hand for the first time – Utah Business