[Robotgroup] "jet powered" bionic arm.. cool! uh.. hmm wait.. hot?

[Edwin Wise]

On 22 Aug 2007, at 4:33 PM, Vern Graner wrote:

> Video shows a prosthetic arm powered by pressure created when a small
> amount of fuel is released from a chamber onto a catalyst.

Hydrogen Peroxide against, it showed pellets, Manganese Dioxide?   
That's one catalyst. Another is silver.

This company uses, they claim, a more complex catalyst:

http://www.tecaeromex.com/ingles/indexi.html

Anyway, the downside to the design they have, from what I've read, is  
the valves are engineered to an insane degree of accuracy.

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/rockets-help-revolutionize-prosthetic- 
arms-13973.html

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/stories/bionicarm.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide

Edwin!