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no exception the <b>Tesla CEO</b> tweeted that his electric car company is 
actually working on tech that would allow chargers to snake out of the 
wall and plug into your car automatically, eliminating the need to 
manually connect when you get your <b>Model S</b> back to your garage at night.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This would presumably somewhat resemble the kind of <a href="http://www.techhintz.com/2014/12/double-amputee-becomes-first-to-control.html" target="_blank">articulated robotic arms</a> made famous by comic book villain Doctor Octopus, but less 
threatening and evil. The invention would appear to be driven by a 
desire to make the process of charging Tesla vehicles even more 
convenient, and also by extension more idiot-proof you can’t forget to
 plug in your car when the plug is autonomous, after all.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Related:</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.techhintz.com/2014/12/double-amputee-becomes-first-to-control.html" itemprop="url">Double Amputee Becomes First To Control Two Robotic Arms With Only His Mind</a></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Backwards compatibility for said tech is a nice bonus, and yet 
another example of how Tesla goes out of its way to bring the benefits 
of its advances to existing, as well as new customers. Already, Tesla 
has begun rolling out battery swap tech that works with existing cars, 
and earlier this year it introduced a warranty extension that applied 
backwards to existing Model S cars already shipped.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Source:<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/tesla-is-working-on-robotic-snakes-that-emerge-from-the-wall-to-charge-your-car/?ncid=rss&cps=gravity_1462_-4156834890402770542" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TechCrunch </a></span><br />
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Tesla Is Working On Robotic Snakes That Emerge From The Wall To Charge Your Car

Elon Musk is pretty much the best thing about Twitter, and today is no exception the Tesla CEO tweeted that his electric car company is ...

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losing both of his arms in a freak electrical accident, Colorado 
resident <b>Leslie Baugh</b> got two new bionic limbs. And after just 10 days 
of training, he began using them to move objects from shelf to shelf, 
controlling them with only his thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Baugh, as Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory reports,
 is the first “bilateral shoulder-level amputee” to wear and control two
 modular prosthetic limbs at the same time.</span><br />
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development for more than a decade. It was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and was tested on Baugh as part of an experimental program run at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Though his progress is 
groundbreaking, accomplishing this medical first was no easy feat. Baugh
 first had to undergo an intense surgery performed by the institute’s 
medical director, Albert Chi that rearranged (in medical terms, “<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1419196176749_3506">reinnervated”</span>) the nerves in his chest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“I remember when I first 
came out from under it, the pain,I don’t even remember the original 
being that much excruciating pain,”</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Baugh said in <a data-rapid_p="479" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="elm:itm;elmt:link;t1:a2;t2:article;t3:body;t8:3470e8b6-005c-3895-b14f-088e09d49ff7;t9:18;itc:0;" href="http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2014/141216.asp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a video released by the university</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After the surgery was complete, 
the doctors used a 360-degree scanning method to produce a prototype for
 a cast to fit around Baugh’s body. This was meant to function as both a
 support brace for his new limbs and a platform on which his 
reinnervated nerves could make the brain-to-chest nerve connections 
required to move.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNOQRKcWFpe-kVebnykUu3FB6qrAi-O2eyeDdNh_z-gMjV-M0cccF0_rJOqSVnpbl0BdeGMQ4szJCTee3GteolU4mj0s5YU0FooxT8V7MZP_x0M1PFenl3M-4u_gHP7y3f_l714q5z27kx/s1600/johns-hopkins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt=" Amputee Becomes First to Control Two Robotic Arms with Only His Mind" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNOQRKcWFpe-kVebnykUu3FB6qrAi-O2eyeDdNh_z-gMjV-M0cccF0_rJOqSVnpbl0BdeGMQ4szJCTee3GteolU4mj0s5YU0FooxT8V7MZP_x0M1PFenl3M-4u_gHP7y3f_l714q5z27kx/s1600/johns-hopkins.jpg" title="" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They also began training Baugh 
on a virtual reality system that was meant to mimic the robot arms he’d 
soon receive. With a collection of nerve monitors stuck to his 
shoulders, Baugh would look at a computer screen as he practiced 
thinking about lifting his elbow up and down. If he successfully made 
the neural connection, the virtual arm would move just how he’d 
intended.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1419196176749_3461">“Once the training sessions were complete, and they released me and let me<span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1419196176749_3460"> be the computer … I just go into a whole different world,” Baugh said.</span></span></span></div>
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 now has access to the areas of motion most people take for granted in 
their upper bodies: shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands. Within all these 
categories, he can move an amazing 30 degrees altogether. Though this 
means he can move cups and balls from one place to another, it’s a 
complicated process. He must move each joint into position separately — 
for instance, first shoulder, then elbow, then wrist. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Baugh’s story comes just months after University of Pittsburgh researchers presented a paper on the recent improvements in robotic limbs. Elsewhere, BrainGate is developing <span id="yui_3_15_0_1_1419196176749_3507">a limb that requires a chip to be implanted in a person’s mind, and Duke University scientists </span>premiered a mind-controlled exoskeleton in June at the opening of the World Cup.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“I think we’re just getting started at this point,” Mike McLoughlin,
 the prosthetic program manager, said in the video. “It’s like the early
 days of the Internet. There’s a tremendous amount of potential ahead of
 us. The next five, 10 years are going to bring some really phenomenal 
advancements.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Baugh’s hopes are much more humble:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“Maybe for once I’ll be able to 
put change in a pop machine and get the pop out of it,” he said. “Simple
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Double Amputee Becomes First To Control Two Robotic Arms With Only His Mind

This summer, 40 years after losing both of his arms in a freak electrical accident, Colorado resident Leslie Baugh got two new bionic l...