In an exclusive interview with The O&P EDGE, Stuart Harshbarger discusses how the end game is shaping up for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 Program.

As this issue of The O&P EDGE goes to press, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will be rolling out the final model of its Modular Prosthetic Limb (MPL)—the culmination of a Herculean four-year effort by 30 universities and research institutions and more than 300 of the most gifted minds in our country's brain trust.

"It is, without any challenge, going to be the most highly dexterous advanced prosthetic limb system in the world," says Stuart Harshbarger, chief science officer at Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and principal research scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Maryland, who served as program manager for the project. "I don't think anybody can argue with that."

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