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Human Augmentation · Recorded milestone

Targeted muscle reinnervation

Recorded year2002

Todd Kuiken reroutes arm nerves into chest muscle so an amputee can work a bionic arm just by thinking about moving it.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.