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Woman receives bionic hand with sense of touch

03-Jan-2018

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First bionic hand with a sense of touch that can be worn outside a laboratory.

Fitted to patient who lost her left hand in an accident 25 years ago.

Technology is now small enough to fit in a rucksack.

Sensors can detect information about whether an object is soft or hard.

Information is relayed to the brain via tiny electrodes implanted in nerves in the upper arm.

The feeling is spontaneous as if it were your real hand.

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Silvestro Micera

Neuroengineer at EPFL in Lausanne

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