Scientists have found a new way to make a prosthetic limb feel tactile


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Oct 14,2020

Scientists have found a new way to make a prosthetic limb feel tactile

The development and innovation of technology has given disabled patients more possibilities, gradually making "clumsy" prostheses more flexible, and can even be controlled by brain ideas. However, artificial prostheses with the highest technology have a huge flaw-tactile perception.

In a paper recently published in the journal "Science Translational Medicine", scientists have successfully found a way to make the wearer feel tactile, so that disabled patients can manipulate objects more three-dimensionally.  

 

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