Dean Kamen: New prosthetic arm for veterans

Prevodilac: Jelena Nedjic Lektor: Marija Milenovic

I got a visit almost exactly a year ago,

Pre skoro tačno godinu dana, malo duže od godinu dana,

a little over a year ago, from a very senior person at the Department of Defense.

posetio me je stari stručnjak koji radi u Ministarstvu odbrane.

Came to see me and said, "1,600 of the kids that we've sent out

Rekao mi je: "1.600 mladića koje smo poslali u rat

have come back missing at least one full arm.

se vratilo bez barem jedne cele ruke.

Whole arm. Shoulder disarticulation.

Cele ruke. Iščupane iz ramena.

And we're doing the same thing we did for -- more or less,

Mi im i dalje nudimo isti tretman koji je u primeni, manje-više

that we've done since the Civil War, a stick and a hook.

od perioda Građanskog rata, štap i kuku.

And they deserve more than that."

Oni zaslužuju više od toga."

And literally, this guy sat in my office in New Hampshire and said,

Ovaj tip je bukvalno sedeo u mojoj kancelariji u Nju Hemširu i rekao:

"I want you to give me something that we can put on these kids

"Želim da mi pronađeš takvo rešenje koje bi omogućilo toj deci

that'll pick up a raisin or a grape off a table,

da uzmu zrno suvog ili svežeg grožđa sa stola,

they'll be able to put it in their mouth without destroying either one,

da mogu da ga prinesu ustima, a pritom ga ne unište

and they'll be able to know the difference without looking at it."

kao i da mogu da osete razliku bez gledanja u njega."

You know, had efferent, afferent, and haptic response.

Da imaju eferentni, aferentni i taktilni odgovor.

He finishes explaining that, and I'm waiting for the big 300 pound paper proposal,

Završio je izlaganje i ja sam očekivao predlog projekta

and he said, "That's what I want from you."

napisanog na 136 kg papira, a on reče: "To je ono što očekujem od tebe."

I said, "Look, you're nuts. That technology's just not available right now.

Rekoh: "Slušaj, ovo je ludost. Ne posedujemo takvu tehnologiju.

And it can't be done.

To se ne može uraditi.

Not in an envelope of a human arm,

Neizvodljivo je to napraviti u obliku ljudske ruke,

with 21 degrees of freedom, from your shoulder to your fingertips."

koja poseduje 21 stepen slobode kretanje, od ramena do vrhova prstiju."

He said, "About two dozen of these 1,600 kids have come back bilateral.

On reče: "Otprilike dve desetine ove dece se sa bojišta vratilo bez obe ruke.

You think it's bad to lose one arm?

Misliš da je život bez jedne ruke loš?

That's an inconvenience compared to having both of them gone."

To je ništa u poređenju sa amputiranjem obe ruke."

I got a day job,

Imam regularni posao, a u toku noći i vikendima se

and my nights and weekends are already filled up with things like,

već bavim problemima dopremanja vode po svetu,

let's supply water to the world, and power to the world, and educate all the kids,

preraspodele svetske moći i obrazovanjem sve dece,

which, Chris, I will not talk about. I don't need another mission.

a o tome, Kris, ipak neću pričati. Ne treba mi još jedan misija.

I keep thinking about these kids with no arms.

Ali sve vreme razmišljam o toj deci bez ruku.

He says to me, "We've done some work around the country.

On reče: "Bavili smo se ovim po celoj zemlji. Došli smo

We've got some pretty amazing neurology and other people."

do fantastičnih rezultata u neurologiji, imamo i druge stručnjake."

I said, "I'll take a field trip, I'll go see what you got."

Rekoh: "Krenuću na put, pogledaću čime raspolažete."

Over the next month I visited lots of places, some out here, around the country,

Tokom narednih meseci posetio sam mnoga mesta,

found the best of the best.

po celoj državi, i otkrio sam najbolje od najboljeg.

I went down to Washington. I saw these guys, and said,

Otišao sam u Vašington. Sastao sam se tim tipovima i rekao,

"I did what you asked me. I looked at what's out there.

"Uradio sam ono što ste želeli. Analizirao sam šta je već urađeno.

I still think you're nuts. But not as nuts as I thought."

I dalje mislim da ste ludi. Ali niste onoliko ludi koliko sam mislio

I put a team together, a little over 13 months ago,

da jeste." Sastavio sam tim, pre malo više od 13 meseci,

got up to 20 some-odd people.

od otprilike 20-tak neuobičajenih ljudi. Odlučili smo

We said, we're going to build a device that does what he wants.

da napravimo uređaj koji će raditi baš ono što je traženo.

We have 14 out of the 21 degrees of freedom;

Došli smo do 14 stepena slobode od mogućih 21,

you don't need the ones in the last two fingers.

nije vam neophodna sloboda kretanja u poslednja dva prsta.

We put this thing together.

To smo sve ukombinovali.

A couple of weeks ago we took it down to Walter Reed,

Pre par nedelja smo to preneli u Valter Rid,

which is unfortunately more in the news these days.

koji je na nesreću sve više na vestima ovih dana.

We showed it to a bunch of guys.

Pokazali smo to gomili ljudi.

One guy who described himself as being lucky,

Jedan dečko je sebe samtrao srećkovićem,

because he lost his left arm, and he's a righty.

jer je izgubio levu ruku, a on je desnoruk.

He sat at a table with seven or eight of these other guys.

Sedeo je za stolom sa 7 ili 8 drugih mladića.

Said he was lucky, because he had his good arm,

On reče da je srećan, jer i dalje ima funkcionalnu ruku.

and then he pushed himself back from the table. He had no legs.

a onda se udaljio od stola. On nije imao noge.

These kids have attitudes that you just can't believe.

Ova deca imaju takve stavove da vi u to ne možete da poverujete.

So I'm going to show you now, without the skin on it,

Sada ću vam pokazati kostur uređaja bez navlake,

a 30-second piece, and then I'm done.

snimak od 30 sekundi i sa time završavam.

But understand what you're looking at

Treba da razumete da je ono što ćete sada videti napravljeno

we made small enough to fit on a 50th percentile female,

da bude takvih dimenzija da odgovara i ženskim osobama,

so that we could put it in any of these people.

tako da možemo to da implantiramo na bilo koju osobu.

It's going to go inside something that we use in CAT scans and

To će biti prikačeno za ono što koristimo pri rentgenskom snimanju

MRIs of whatever is their good arm,

i magnetnoj rezonanci ili za ono što je njihov zdravi deo ruke,

to make silicon rubber, then coat it, and paint it in 3D --

napravimo potom gumu od silicijuma, obložimo je, iscrtamo u 3D-u,

exact mirror image of their other limb.

i tako dobijemo tačnu projekciju u ogledalu njihovog drugog ekstremiteta.

So, you won't see all the really cool stuff that's in this series elastic set of 14 actuators,

Nećete videti dobre stvari koje smo imali u seriji od 14 nosioca aktivnosti,

each one which has its own capability to sense temperature and pressure.

a to je da svaki od tih delova može osetiti temperaturu i pritisak.

It also has a pneumatic cuff that holds it on,

Takođe poseduje pneumatski zatvarač,

so the more they put themselves under load, the more it attaches.

tako da što više preopteretite ruku, ona se prisnije vezuje.

They take the load off, and it becomes, again, compliant.

Ako se oslobode tereta, uređaj to prati. Pokazaću vam

I'm going to show you a guy doing a couple of simple things with this

dečka koji izvodi nekoliko jednostavnih radnji uz pomoć

that we demonstrated in Washington. Can we look at this thing?

naprave koju smo predstavili u Vašingtonu. Da li možemo to da pogledamo?

Watch the fingers grab. The thumb comes up. Wrist.

Posmatrajte prste kako uzimaju predmet. Palac se pomera na gore. Ručni zglob.

This weighs 6.9 pounds.

Ovo je teško oko 3 kg.

Going to scratch his nose.

Sada će se počešati po nosu.

It's got 14 active degrees of freedom.

To ima 14 aktivnih stepena slobode.

Now he's going to pick up a pen with his opposed thumb and index finger.

Sada će uzeti olovku palcem i kažiprstom.

Now he's going to put that down, pick up a piece of paper,

Sada će je spustiti i uzeće komad papira,

rotate all the degrees of freedom in his hand and wrist, and read it.

rotiraće sve stepene slobode u svojoj šaci i ručnom zglobu kako bi to pročitao.

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