Robotic Arm on first 'Bionic Woman.'

This is old news, but I noticed it for the first time recently and thought you may be interested.  Claudia Mitchell, about a year and half ago, became the first woman to get a Bionic Arm.  The Washington Post reported on the development:

Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person -- and first woman -- to receive a "bionic" arm, which allows her to control parts of the device by her thoughts alone. The device, designed by physicians and engineers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, works by detecting the movements of a chest muscle that has been rewired to the stumps of nerves that once went to her now-missing limb.

Pretty cool, eh?  More recently major developments have been made in bionic prosthetics.  Check out a recent post of mine on the subject for details: DARPA-Funded Proto 2 Brings Mind Control to Prosthetics.