NPR

Amputees often feel disconnected from their bionic hands. AI could bridge the gap

Researchers have built a prosthetic hand that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can act a lot more like a natural one. The key is to have the hand recognize when the user wants to do ...
HUB

Feeling is believing: Bionic hand 'knows' what it's touching, grasps like a human

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...
Yahoo

China’s robot prosthetic hand hits 19 degrees of freedom with human-like skill

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Upper-limb amputees often struggle with everyday tasks due to their limited dexterity. The existing prosthetic hands often lack ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, a Prosthetic Limb Can Sense Temperature Like a Living Hand

Fabrizio Fidati, a 57-year-old amputee, uses the MiniTouch device with his prosthetic to accurately sort cubes of different temperatures. EPFL Caillet Amputees’ hopes to experience the feeling of ...