60 Minutes: Testing a Fully-Functional Bionic Arm [w/video]

April 14 2009, 9:22pm

When Americans are wounded in Afghanistan or Iraq, no expense is spared to save their lives. But once they're home, if they have suffered an amputation of their arm, they usually end up wearing an artificial limb that hasn't changed much since World War II. That is starting to change. New technology offers hope of a fully-functional bionic arm.