Austrian man with robotic arm dies in car accident
Posted October 22, 2010 6:52 pm.
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An Austrian man who was given the ability to drive through an innovative, high-tech artificial arm has died after his car veered off a road and smashed into a tree.
Christian Kandl-Bauer, 22, lost both of his arms in an accident.
He was fitted with a mind-controlled robotic prosthesis on his left arm, and a normal prosthesis on his right.
Police and doctors said, however, that it is impossible to determine if the crash resulted from an issue with the artificial arms.
