{"id":118119,"date":"2021-01-06T18:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T02:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/prosthetic-hands-get-smart-and-a-sense-of-touch"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T02:22:31","slug":"prosthetic-hands-get-smart-and-a-sense-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/prosthetic-hands-get-smart-and-a-sense-of-touch","title":{"rendered":"Prosthetic hands get smart \u2014 and a sense of touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prosthetic-hands-get-smart-and-a-sense-of-touch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can feel touching my daughter\u2019s hand or touching my wife\u2019s hand, or picking up a hollow eggshell without crushing it,\u201d Anderson says of his work with Psyonic, a startup operating out of the University of Illinois\u2019 Research Park, in Urbana-Champaign. Psyonic expects to provide commercial prostheses with pressure sensing next year, and ones with sensory feedback sometime after that.<\/p>\n<p>Technology is on the threshold of turning the unthinkable into reality. Awkward, unfeeling prostheses are morphing into mind-controlled extensions of the human body that give their wearers a sense of touch and a greater range of motion.<\/p>\n<p>Along with sensory feedback, Psyonic\u2019s rubber and silicone prosthesis uses machine learning to give its wearers intuitive control. The Modular Prosthetic Limb from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jhu.edu\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Johns Hopkins University<\/a> promises to deliver \u201chumanlike\u201d strength, thought-controlled dexterity and sensation. It\u2019s currently in the research phase. And Icelandic company Ossur is conducting preclinical trials on mind-controlled leg and foot prostheses. These and other advances could make it dramatically easier for amputees to perform the sorts of tasks most people take for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI can feel touching my daughter\u2019s hand or touching my wife\u2019s hand, or picking up a hollow eggshell without crushing it,\u201d Anderson says of his work with Psyonic, a startup operating out of the University of Illinois\u2019 Research Park, in Urbana-Champaign. Psyonic expects to provide commercial prostheses with pressure sensing next year, and ones with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}