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The first person to live with a mind-controlled robotic arm is teaching himself piano

Johnny Matheny has been living the bionic dream. He’s the first person in the world to live with an advanced, mind-controlled robotic arm. It’s part of a year-long research project conducted by Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab, and funded, in part, by the US Department of Defense.

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