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Prosthetic that feels touch and hot and cold

The doctor pulled out the four main nerves that used to connect to the patient’s damaged arm and put them beneath the skin in his chest. The prosthetic has a device that presses on the chest to communicate information from the prosthetic.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0506230208jun23,1,7950510.story

This entry was posted on Friday, June 24th, 2005 at 2:41 am by Bayle Shanks and is filed under Brain-machine interfaces, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Prosthetic that feels touch and hot and cold”

  1. neurodudes » Blog Archive » Amputee Controls Feels Bionic Arm as Her Own Says:
    February 2nd, 2007 at 2:59 pm

    [...] Given the recent progress in the decoding of motor signals from the brain and older progress on sensory feedback from neural prosthetics, this was to be expected. Nonetheless, watching this woman use her arm brings the message home in a visceral way. The spooky thesis of Rodney Brooks that “we will become a merger between flesh and machines” has gotten one step closer today. [...]

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