Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, as well as the iBOT Mobility System has come out with the Robot Arm and has been showing it off since 2007. Kamen showed the robot arm at the D6 convention. The arm was named after his favorite star wars character, “Luke.” The arm is intelligently sophisticated, and experts claim, ” the arm is lightyears ahead of anything else. It is a major breakthrough for the medical field by helping people who have lost arms. The arm is controlled by the the mind and works seemlessly, just like an arm. Instead of using a claw, like users do today, the arm can help let them pick things up.

The arm shows post human qualitys because it is like a cyborg. The arm is attached to the person and the person uses their mind to control the arm. Just like a real working arm just made out of metal. The arm will help thousands of veterans, and people who have no arm or arms. The arm is a advancemnt into the future; showing how metal will help our bodies grow if anything happens. The robotic arm will help people embrace future ideas of robotic things being used by humans.