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Slideshow: The $71.2 Million Arm
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is spending at least US $71.2 million to reinvent prosthetic arms from the ground up.
PHOTO: MIKE McGREGOR
Jonathan Kuniholm, an Iraq veteran who lost his arm in 2005, is one of 300 engineers working on DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 program, which was created to solve the thorny interdisciplinary problems that stand in the way of creating truly functional prosthetic arms.
January 2009





















