In a difficult operation, a surgeon moved Kitts’s nerves to different areas of her upper-arm muscles.
For months, the nerves grew.
Millimeter by millimeter, they moved deeper into then new homes.
“At three months I started feeling little tingle and twitches,” she said.
A month later, she got her first bionic arm.
A research engineer worked with Kitts to make the computer programs match her real movements more and more closely.