https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/ Kestrell - Dreamwidth Studios Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:35:31 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios kestrell personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/12439661/307003 https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/ 69 100 https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/206664.html Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:35:31 GMT https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/206664.html I was reading _The Octopus and the Orangutan_, which is about anecdotal stories concerning animal intelligence, and it mentioned a prosthetic project I had not heard of before, namely, a conference where a bunch of biologists and engineers worked together to develop a prosthetic arm based on the design of the octopus tentacle. A cool thing about octopus tentacles is that a significant portion of the octopus's neurons are in the tentacle itself, and the neurons may even be unique to each tentacle, so yes, the right tentacle may not know what the left tentacle is doing.<br /><br />Anyway, I couldn't find any information on the project mentioned in the book, but I did find information about another project, this one designed by a female university student. <br /><a href="http://inventorspot.com/articles/prosthetic_arm_biomimics_arms_octopus">http://inventorspot.com/articles/prosthetic_arm_biomimics_arms_octopus</a><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kestrell&ditemid=206664" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/206664.html bioengineering prosthetics public 2