{"id":141027,"date":"2022-06-23T22:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T03:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/robotic-armband-shows-promise-for-advanced-dexterity"},"modified":"2022-06-23T22:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T03:03:13","slug":"robotic-armband-shows-promise-for-advanced-dexterity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/robotic-armband-shows-promise-for-advanced-dexterity","title":{"rendered":"Robotic Armband Shows Promise for Advanced Dexterity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robotic-armband-shows-promise-for-advanced-dexterity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>AZoRobotics speaks with Dr. Erik Enegberg from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fau.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida Atlantic University<\/a> about his research into a wearable soft robotic armband. This could be a life-changing device for prosthetic hands users who have long-desired advances in dexterity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Typing on a keyboard, pressing buttons on a remote control, or braiding a child\u2019s hair has remained elusive for prosthetic hand users. How does the loss of tactile sensations impact limb-absent people\u2019s lives?<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Losing the sensation of touch has a profound impact on people\u2019s lives. Some of the things that may seem simple and a part of everyday life, such as stroking the fur of a pet or the skin of a loved one, are a meaningful and fundamental way to connect with those around us for others. For example, a patient with a bilateral amputation has previously expressed concerns that he might hurt his granddaughter by accidentally squeezing her hand too tightly as he has lost tactile sensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AZoRobotics speaks with Dr. Erik Enegberg from Florida Atlantic University about his research into a wearable soft robotic armband. This could be a life-changing device for prosthetic hands users who have long-desired advances in dexterity. Typing on a keyboard, pressing buttons on a remote control, or braiding a child\u2019s hair has remained elusive for prosthetic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141027","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}