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The 'mind-bending' bionic arm powered by AI


BBC Click reporter Paul Carter tries out a high-tech prosthetic promising a 'full range of human motion'.

Modern day replacement arms and legs are made of silicon and carbon fibre, and increasingly they are bionic, meaning they have various electronically controlled moving parts to make them more useful to the user. What the company I visited, Atom Limbs, is doing is combining a range of cutting-edge innovations, including artificial intelligence (AI), into a next-generation bionic arm. Social media star Tilly Lockey, who has been using bionic arms since she was 9 years old, is excited about their future potential - but she told the BBC whether this device made a difference would all come down to testing.

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