Fans watching the new “Star Wars” movie in nine Utah theaters will get to see some real-life wizardry from the University of Utah’s College of Engineering.
A 30-second commercial for the LUKE Arm, a motorized prosthetic arm for amputees co-developed by biomedical engineers at the U., will play before screenings of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” at the Megaplex Theatres chain.
The LUKE Arm is named after Luke Skywalker, the hero of the original “Star Wars” trilogy played by Mark Hamill. In “The Empire Strikes Back,” Luke loses a hand in a lightsaber duel with Darth Vader, and gets a robotic hand as a replacement.