{"id":88053,"date":"2019-02-21T15:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/a-prosthetic-that-restores-the-sense-of-where-your-hand-is"},"modified":"2019-02-21T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T23:02:21","slug":"a-prosthetic-that-restores-the-sense-of-where-your-hand-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/a-prosthetic-that-restores-the-sense-of-where-your-hand-is","title":{"rendered":"A prosthetic that restores the sense of where your hand is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-prosthetic-that-restores-the-sense-of-where-your-hand-is2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a next-generation bionic hand that allows amputees to regain their proprioception. The results of the study, which have been published in <i>Science Robotics<\/i>, are the culmination of ten years of robotics research.<\/p>\n<p>The next-generation bionic hand, developed by researchers from EPFL, the Sant\u2019Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and the A. Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome, enables amputees to regain a very subtle, close-to-natural sense of touch. The scientists managed to reproduce the feeling of proprioception, which is our brain\u2019s capacity to instantly and accurately sense the position of our limbs during and after movement \u2013 even in the dark or with our eyes closed.<\/p>\n<p>The new device allows <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/patients\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">patients<\/a> to reach out for an object on a table and to ascertain an item\u2019s consistency, shape, position and size without having to look at it. The prosthesis has been successfully tested on several patients and works by stimulating the nerves in the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/amputee\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">amputee<\/a>\u2019s stump. The nerves can then provide <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/sensory+feedback\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sensory feedback<\/a> to the patients in real time \u2013 almost like they do in a natural hand.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019-02-prosthetic.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019&#45;02-prosthetic.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a next-generation bionic hand that allows amputees to regain their proprioception. The results of the study, which have been published in Science Robotics, are the culmination of ten years of robotics research. The next-generation bionic hand, developed by researchers from EPFL, the Sant\u2019Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and the A. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"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-88053","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\/88053","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}