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Dean Kamen: Luke, a new prosthetic arm for soldiers
狄恩·卡门 (Dean Kamen) 展示新的假肢
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发明家狄恩·卡门预览替美国国防部开发的假肢。他在运用新科技解决困难的同时,展现了人道主义关怀的伟大精神.
Dean Kamen - Inventor
Dean Kamen landed in the limelight with the Segway, but he has been innovating since high school, with more than 150 patents under his belt. Recent projects include portable energy and water purification for the developing world, and a prosthetic arm for maimed soldiers. Full bio
Dean Kamen landed in the limelight with the Segway, but he has been innovating since high school, with more than 150 patents under his belt. Recent projects include portable energy and water purification for the developing world, and a prosthetic arm for maimed soldiers. Full bio
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I got a visit almost exactly a year ago,
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刚好一年以前,我接待了一位高官,
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a little over a year ago, from a very senior person at the Department of Defense.
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此人来自美国国防部.
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Came to see me and said, "1,600 of the kids that we've sent out
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他提道："在派驻外国的士兵之中,有一千六百人
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have come back missing at least one full arm.
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至少丢了一个完整的胳膊,
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Whole arm. Shoulder disarticulation.
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想象一下,整个胳膊！
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And we're doing the same thing we did for -- more or less,
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自美国南北战争以来,我们一直都在使用假肢来帮助他们,
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that we've done since the Civil War, a stick and a hook.
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这种情况一直没有改观,
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And they deserve more than that."
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我们应该为他们做得更多.
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And literally, this guy sat in my office in New Hampshire and said,
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这位长官坐在我的新罕布什尔办公室, 一字一顿的说
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"I want you to give me something that we can put on these kids
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"我要你给我们造一个机器
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that'll pick up a raisin or a grape off a table,
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这个装置可以从桌上拿葡萄干或者葡萄
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they'll be able to put it in their mouth without destroying either one,
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放在嘴巴,
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and they'll be able to know the difference without looking at it."
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凭着这个装置,他们能分辨出什么是葡萄干,什么是葡萄
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You know, had efferent, afferent, and haptic response.
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这个装置应该有触觉".
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He finishes explaining that, and I'm waiting for the big 300 pound paper proposal,
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他解释完他的想法以后,我就在等重达300磅的文件,
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and he said, "That's what I want from you."
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"这就是我需要的",他说道.
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I said, "Look, you're nuts. That technology's just not available right now.
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"你又在胡思乱想了",我说道.
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And it can't be done.
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"这种技术现在不存在,我也没办法做.
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Not in an envelope of a human arm,
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从肩到手指的21度角范围内,
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with 21 degrees of freedom, from your shoulder to your fingertips."
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这是人类胳膊可抓取的范围".
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He said, "About two dozen of these 1,600 kids have come back bilateral.
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他说:"在这一千六百些幼童以内有差不多二十四位双臂截肢的人.
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You think it's bad to lose one arm?
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也许你觉得丢一个胳膊很惨,
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That's an inconvenience compared to having both of them gone."
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可是对于失去双臂的人来说,那只是一点点不方便而已".
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I got a day job,
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我白天有正式工作
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and my nights and weekends are already filled up with things like,
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晚上和周末还要研究怎么解决世界的饮用水,电能的困难，
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let's supply water to the world, and power to the world, and educate all the kids,
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以及教育小孩子,
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which, Chris, I will not talk about. I don't need another mission.
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这些我不想多说了,Chris.我已经很忙了,不想做这个.
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I keep thinking about these kids with no arms.
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我还是在想那些没有胳膊的孩子.
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He says to me, "We've done some work around the country.
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他对我说："实际上我们在国内已经有了一些成就了。
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We've got some pretty amazing neurology and other people."
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我们已经发现了一些神经网络学方面的人才和技术".
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I said, "I'll take a field trip, I'll go see what you got."
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于是我说道:“那我去看看吧, 俗话说,百闻不如一见”
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Over the next month I visited lots of places, some out here, around the country,
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接下来一个月,我考察了很多地方,
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found the best of the best.
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发现了顶尖的专家.
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I went down to Washington. I saw these guys, and said,
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调查以后，我到了华盛顿, 见了这些人, 告诉他们,
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"I did what you asked me. I looked at what's out there.
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”我照你说的做了,我看了你们所做的.
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I still think you're nuts. But not as nuts as I thought."
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我还是认为你的想法很荒谬,但是没有我之前认为的那么荒谬了".
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I put a team together, a little over 13 months ago,
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我组建一个团队,十三月以前，
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got up to 20 some-odd people.
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大概20多人的团队.
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We said, we're going to build a device that does what he wants.
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我们决定同心协力，把那个装置照他说的那样造出来.
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We have 14 out of the 21 degrees of freedom;
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21度角中,其中14度可灵活转动,
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you don't need the ones in the last two fingers.
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不需要最小手指的力量。
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We put this thing together.
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我们把它做出来了。
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A couple of weeks ago we took it down to Walter Reed,
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两个星期以前，我们把这架义肢送达沃尔特 ·里德医院。
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which is unfortunately more in the news these days.
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这个医院最近总是有不幸的消息传出。
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We showed it to a bunch of guys.
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我们展示了这个装置如何运作。
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One guy who described himself as being lucky,
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其中有个人自认为很幸运,
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because he lost his left arm, and he's a righty.
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因为他是右撇子的人, 只失掉了左边的胳臂.
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He sat at a table with seven or eight of these other guys.
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他跟七八个人坐在一起.
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Said he was lucky, because he had his good arm,
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不停地说他运气好,因为还有一只胳膊.
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and then he pushed himself back from the table. He had no legs.
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他把自己从桌子旁推开, 原来他没有腿脚.
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These kids have attitudes that you just can't believe.
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你很难相信他们的态度。
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So I'm going to show you now, without the skin on it,
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现在我要你们看一看三十秒钟的录像片段。
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a 30-second piece, and then I'm done.
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这个机械装置没有人造外边的皮肤。放完录像后，我的演讲就结束了。
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But understand what you're looking at
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你们现在看到的这架义肢并不是那么大
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we made small enough to fit on a 50th percentile female,
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因为义肢也应该适应妇女的尺寸
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so that we could put it in any of these people.
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所以男人，女人都能用这架装置。
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It's going to go inside something that we use in CAT scans and
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我们使用CAT和MRI技术,
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MRIs of whatever is their good arm,
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以好的胳膊为原型绘制,
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to make silicon rubber, then coat it, and paint it in 3D --
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使用硅胶制作,使用三维涂料,
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exact mirror image of their other limb.
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义肢外面手套上也有三维涂颜层,颜色很准确。
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So, you won't see all the really cool stuff that's in this series elastic set of 14 actuators,
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我们实际上看不到这14个弹性机械手的个中玄机
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each one which has its own capability to sense temperature and pressure.
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它们每一个都能自行感知压力和温度
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It also has a pneumatic cuff that holds it on,
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义肢也有气动的袖口
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so the more they put themselves under load, the more it attaches.
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你越用力,它跟身体连接的越紧
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They take the load off, and it becomes, again, compliant.
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要是减小载重，义肢又松弛。
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I'm going to show you a guy doing a couple of simple things with this
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让我们来看看真人使用它做一些简单的事情,
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that we demonstrated in Washington. Can we look at this thing?
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这些动作跟在华盛顿演示的动作是一样的。一起来看看吧。
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Watch the fingers grab. The thumb comes up. Wrist.
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看一看手指抓住。大拇指上升。手腕。
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This weighs 6.9 pounds.
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瓶子重6.9磅。
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Going to scratch his nose.
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现在他开始挠鼻子。
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It's got 14 active degrees of freedom.
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14度的活动范围。
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Now he's going to pick up a pen with his opposed thumb and index finger.
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他正在用食指跟大拇指把一支钢笔拿起来。
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Now he's going to put that down, pick up a piece of paper,
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就把它放下。然后他把一张纸拿起来,
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rotate all the degrees of freedom in his hand and wrist, and read it.
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旋转一倍,得心应手。
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(Applause)
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[掌声]
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dean Kamen - InventorDean Kamen landed in the limelight with the Segway, but he has been innovating since high school, with more than 150 patents under his belt. Recent projects include portable energy and water purification for the developing world, and a prosthetic arm for maimed soldiers.
Why you should listen
Dean Kamen is an innovator, but not just of things. He hopes to revolutionize attitudes, quality of life, awareness. While an undergraduate, he developed the first portable infusion device, which delivers drug treatments that once required round-the-clock hospital care. And, through his DEKA Research and Development, which he cofounded in 1982, he developed a portable dialysis machine, a vascular stent, and the iBOT -- a motorized wheelchair that climbs stairs (Stephen Colbert took one for a spin).
Yes, he's a college dropout, but he's a huge believer in education, and in 1989 established the nonprofit FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) to inspire teenagers to pursue careers in science. FIRST sponsors lively annual competitions, where students form teams to create the best robot.
His focus now is on off-grid electricity and water purification for developing countries; another recent project, previewed at TED2007, is a prosthetic arm for maimed soldiers (read an update here). He's also working on a power source for the wonderful Think car. And, with more funding in the works, we haven't seen the last of the Segway.
Dean Kamen | Speaker | TED.com