That may seem like an odd question as the agency's reputation is burnished today by breathless reportage of the applications of its technologies, with driverless cars, robot challenges,
advanced prostheses and even neuroscience applications that seem tailor - made to meet civilian preoccupations.
For the Italian group, and for all others involved in research on
advanced prostheses, the method provides a new tool for exploring the sensations the prostheses can provide.
Not exact matches
«It's difficult to say at the moment,» says Diane Lazard, «but the idea is also to be able to spot in
advance the people who will have a propensity for the written stimulus and to offer them active means for remaining with orality, particularly with auditory
prostheses and speech therapy used much earlier than is currently practised.»
In the article, Goldfarb and graduate students Brian Lawson and Amanda Shultz describe the technological
advances that have made robotic
prostheses viable.
«The retinal
prosthesis is a tremendous
advance that takes patients from nothing to something,» Sieving says.