DARPA Revolutionizing Prosthetics: Climbing to New Heights

Updated 8.13.15, 6:14 PM EDT by Matthew Lincoln

An Army volunteer amputee tries out the DEKA Arm System on a rock climbing wall at the Center for the Intrepid. The advanced prosthesis was developed on a rapid schedule under DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics program. DARPA worked with the Department of Veterans Affairs on optimization studies of the arm. #DARPABiT

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