Amputee Feel in Real-Time with Bionic Hand (VIDEO)

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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Dennis Aabo S&#248;rensen is the first amputee in the world to feel sensory rich information -- in real-time -- with a prosthetic hand wired to nerves in his upper arm. S&#248;rensen could grasp objects intuitively and identify what he was touching while blindfolded. S&#248;rensen participated in the clinical study for one month in early 2013. The results are published in <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>.

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