{"id":17221,"date":"2015-09-14T01:47:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T08:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/prosthetic-hand-restores-a-mans-sense-of-touch"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:23:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:23:48","slug":"prosthetic-hand-restores-a-mans-sense-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/prosthetic-hand-restores-a-mans-sense-of-touch","title":{"rendered":"Prosthetic hand restores a man\u2019s sense of touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prosthetic-hand-restores-a-mans-sense-of-touch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DARPA promised prosthetic limbs that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/05\/30\/darpa-muscle-controlled-prosthetic-limb\/\">produce realistic sensations<\/a>, and it\u2019s making good on its word. The agency\u2019s researchers have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2015-09-11\">successfully tested<\/a> an artificial hand that gave a man a \u201cnear-natural\u201d level of touch. The patient could tell when scientists were pressing against specific fingers, even when they tried to \u2018trick\u2019 the man by touching two digits at once. The key was to augment the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/05\/17\/mind-operated-robot-arm-helps-paralyzed-woman\/\">thought-controlled<\/a> hand with a set of pressure-sensitive torque motors wired directly to the brain \u2014 any time the hand touched something, it sent electrical signals that felt much like flesh-and-bone contact.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still a lot of work left to go before this hardware is truly realistic, of course. The sensors don\u2019t cover the entire hand, and they don\u2019t account for temperature or other factors you\u2019ll likely worry about when grabbing objects. Still, this should represent a big step forward. Provided the technology takes off, both amputees and paralysis victims could regain some of the tactility they once had.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/09\/14\/prosthetic-hand-restores-touch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA promised prosthetic limbs that produce realistic sensations, and it\u2019s making good on its word. The agency\u2019s researchers have successfully tested an artificial hand that gave a man a \u201cnear-natural\u201d level of touch. The patient could tell when scientists were pressing against specific fingers, even when they tried to \u2018trick\u2019 the man by touching two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17221","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\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69578,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17221\/revisions\/69578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}