{"id":150150,"date":"2022-11-15T01:25:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T07:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/esper-hand-is-a-human-like-prosthetic-arm-that-can-be-controlled-by-the-mind"},"modified":"2022-11-15T01:25:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T07:25:26","slug":"esper-hand-is-a-human-like-prosthetic-arm-that-can-be-controlled-by-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/esper-hand-is-a-human-like-prosthetic-arm-that-can-be-controlled-by-the-mind","title":{"rendered":"Esper Hand is a \u201chuman-like\u201d prosthetic arm that can be controlled by the mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6fEa6BtYWNM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video on prosthetic Esper hand.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New York-based engineering startup Esper Bionics has developed a flexible prosthetic mind-controlled hand that learns how to suggest the best grip faster than similar prosthetics.<br \/> Esper Bionics\u2019 robotic arm is designed to be lighter and learn faster than many of the prosthetics currently available for amputees. The more the wearer uses the hand, the better and quicker it is to suggest the right grip.<\/p>\n<p>Called Esper Hand, the arm uses an electromyography-based brain-computer interface (BCI) \u2013 a computer-based technology system that gathers brain signals and information from nerve stimulation of the muscle.<\/p>\n<p>Over 30 sensors on the wearer\u2019s forearm and shoulder skin pick up on this muscle activity or \u201celectrical cues\u201d and relay the information to trigger an action in the hand.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on Dezeen: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/?p=1768536\">https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/?p=1768536<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/esper-hand-is-a-human-like-prosthetic-arm-that-can-be-controlled-by-the-mind\">Continue reading \u201cEsper Hand is a \u201chuman-like\u201d prosthetic arm that can be controlled by the mind\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video on prosthetic Esper hand. New York-based engineering startup Esper Bionics has developed a flexible prosthetic mind-controlled hand that learns how to suggest the best grip faster than similar prosthetics. Esper Bionics\u2019 robotic arm is designed to be lighter and learn faster than many of the prosthetics currently available for amputees. The more the wearer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150150","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}