These devices use rope-like material to carry movement from the shoulder to the prosthetic arm.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

"On station one,we have robot arms. And what happens is the robots have different joints like a human arm -- one at the shoulder,one at the elbow, wrist and then a claw.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

But men like 85-year-old Don Seki, who lost an arm to a burst of machine-gun fire, play-down his own heroism in helping to rescue the "Lost Battalion."

VOA: standard.2009.11.04