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Saltwater sensor turns touch into electrical signals like skin, with prosthetic potential

You pick up a fragile glass from the table. Without thinking about it, you feel its surface against your fingertips and ...
Cleveland.com

How a Cleveland team is revolutionizing prosthetics with a hand that can actually feel

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Case Western Reserve University and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center have received a $9.9 million grant to test a new prosthetic hand that allows amputees to again have a ...
Miami University

3D-printed prosthetic hand created by undergraduate students could transform access for war-torn regions

A team of four Miami University undergraduate students is working to develop an affordable 3D-printed prosthetic hand that costs less than $100 and can be produced in 36 hours, addressing a shortage ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, a Prosthetic Limb Can Sense Temperature Like a Living Hand

Fabrizio Fidati, a 57-year-old amputee, uses the MiniTouch device with his prosthetic to accurately sort cubes of different temperatures. EPFL Caillet Amputees’ hopes to experience the feeling of ...
HUB

Feeling is believing: Bionic hand 'knows' what it's touching, grasps like a human

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...