Robots have been used to augment the bodies of disabled humans, restoring some of their original capabilities e.g. We are mechatronically able to augment the human body from the first myoelectric prosthetic hand developed in the 1940s 1 to the mechanical design, control and feedback interfaces of modern bionic prosthetic hands e.g.
In real life, Human Augmentation is emerging as the result of the confluence of robotics and neurotechnology. extra) limbs has captured our common imagination.
Our work demonstrates how supernumerary robotics can augment humans in skilled tasks and that individual differences in their augmentation capability are predictable by their individual motor coordination abilities.įrom ancient myths, such as the many-armed goddess Shiva to modern comic book characters, augmentation with supernumerary (i.e. We show that individuals’ augmented performance could be predicted by our new custom motor coordination assessment, the Human Augmentation Motor Coordination Assessment (HAMCA) performed pre-augmentation. We then evaluate 6 naïve and 6 experienced piano players in their prior motor coordination and their capability in piano playing with the robotic augmentation. We demonstrate that a pianist can learn to play the piano with 11 fingers within an hour. We developed a Supernumerary Robotic 3rd Thumbs (SR3T) with two degrees-of-freedom controlled by the user’s body to endow them with an extra contralateral thumb on the hand. However, how our motor control capabilities pose limits on such augmentation is an open question. Contemporary robotics gives us mechatronic capabilities for augmenting human bodies with extra limbs.
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