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Ken Arai and a research team succeeded in physicalizing the "third and fourth arms" in a virtual environment.

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June 30, 2022

Ken Arai and a research team has developed supernumerary virtual robotic arms that works with users’ feet in a virtual environment. After using them, users succeeded in capturing the feeling that their arms had increased.
This is also the world's first attempt to explain the embodiment of a virtual robotic limb system.

The results of this research were published on Scientific Reports on June 27, 2022

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