Creating a Sensory Input Bio-Prosthetic Prototype
From: Design News - 10/08/2010
By: Austen Pace, Ahmed Ghanem, Eric Dischinger, and James Ignatius

Mechatronic principles are applied to the creation of a prosthetic hand with
the ability to dynamically react to touch. 

The "Sensory Input Bio Prosthetic Hand" created for this project is a concept
design of a sensor feedback system in a prosthetic system. The hand has two
modes: automatic and manual. The modes can be toggled between by flipping the
mode switch on the underside of the wrist. When the hand is in automatic
mode, it is simply responding to its environment. Any time it detects touch
on any of its five fingertips; it moves that finger into a grabbing position.
After a pause, it moves the finger back to its original position. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.designnews.com/article/510875-Creating_a_Sensory_Input_Bio_Prosthetic_Prototype.php
http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1X4ca0a6074629a012.cde/page/12

Links:
Colorado State University - Mechatronics
http://ceeps.colostate-pueblo.edu/Engineering/Degrees/BSEMechatronics/Pages/default.aspx

Mechatronics
http://www.memagazine.org/contents/current/features/whoowns/whoowns.html