you an extra hand quite literally an extra hand researchers at the advanced telecommunications research institute international in kyoto japan an announced this month that they have successfully built a robotic arm that through the power of thought can actually be used as your very own third arm according to spectrum dot org the user can be thinking about two tasks out once and the robot can decipher which of those thoughts is directed at itself them perform that task and what's special about it as a mind controlled multitasking supernumerary a limb was a call enough by itself is that it's using it might be that using it might actually improve the user's own multitasking skills wow. that's crazy i would get there going to where are you extra hour when you're just really just so i could like be talking to the screen like this really well there's like a mother or like it be like this check this out so all this talk about. and then you just have this arm up i'm thirsty you know graziers like that all right my son how does our shy and fire die and lover that is our show for you today remember everyone in this worl