{"id":23421,"date":"2016-03-11T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T19:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/amputee-feels-texture-with-a-bionic-fingertip"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:52:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:52:05","slug":"amputee-feels-texture-with-a-bionic-fingertip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/amputee-feels-texture-with-a-bionic-fingertip","title":{"rendered":"Amputee feels texture with a \u2018bionic\u2019 fingertip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amputee-feels-texture-with-a-bionic-fingertip.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>An amputee feels texture in real time: Signals from sensors in an artificial fingertip are converted to neural-like spikes and delivered to nerves in the upper arm. (credit: Ecole polytechnique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>Amputee Dennis Aabo S\u00f8rensen is the first person in the world to recognize texture (smoothness vs. roughness) using an artificial \u201cbionic\u201d fingertip surgically connected to nerves in his upper arm. The experimental system was developed by EPFL (Ecole polytechnique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne) and SSSA (Scuola Superiore Sant\u2019Anna).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stimulation felt almost like what I would feel with my hand,\u201d says S\u00f8rensen. \u201cI felt the texture sensations at the tip of the index finger of my phantom hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/amputee-feels-texture-with-a-bionic-fingertip\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/amputee-feels-texture-with-a-bionic-fingertip<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amputee feels texture in real time: Signals from sensors in an artificial fingertip are converted to neural-like spikes and delivered to nerves in the upper arm. (credit: Ecole polytechnique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne) Amputee Dennis Aabo S\u00f8rensen is the first person in the world to recognize texture (smoothness vs. roughness) using an artificial \u201cbionic\u201d fingertip [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1694,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-electronics","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50920,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421\/revisions\/50920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}