Former US marine Claudia Mitchell became the first woman to be given a “thought-controlled” bionic arm (Image: Win McNamee/Getty)
The prospect of being able to replace damaged limbs with prosthetics that plug straight into the nervous system is moving from fantasy to reality. In July researchers at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, revealed that electrodes implanted in the brain of Matt Nagle, who is paralysed from the neck down, allowed him to control a robotic arm and even play computer games.
One of the key components of truly bionic body parts, which can be controlled by the brain, is…
