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Thus begins inventor Dean Kamen’s recollection of how he began working with DARPA to develop the LUKE Arm, a new generation of prosthetic limb that gives amputees unprecedented, near-natural arm and hand motion. On June 30, 2017, two veterans became the first recipients of these arms.
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