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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. From that encounter, Akhtar decided that one day he would develop affordable artificial limbs. Akhtar is the CEO.

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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Yesterday, six companies that build or support sophisticated mobile robots (led by Boston Dynamics). These companies are striving to make useful, general-purpose robots, and that means making them useful for anything—even things that they should not be used for. Did any companies decline to participate?

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