VA Helps Develop an Artificial Hand That Can Feel
From: Nextgov

Over the past few years, artificial hands have come a long way in terms of
dexterity. They can grasp, shake hands, point, and, usefully, make the "come
hither" gesture.

Now, researchers at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Case
Western Reserve University have made significant progress in building a
prosthetic hand that provides something like a sense of touch.

The hand, which you can see put to use in a demonstration in the video, has
20 sensitive spots that can perceive other objects' physicality. Implants
that connect those spots to nerves in the patients arm have continued to work
18 months after installation, which MIT Technology Review reports, notes is a
important milestone since "electrical interfaces to nerve tissue can
gradually degrade in performance."

Read the entire article and view a video (1:05) at:
http://www.nextgov.com/health/2013/12/va-researchers-help-develop-artificial-hand-can-feel/75311/

Links:
An Artificial Hand with Real Feelings
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/522086/an-artificial-hand-with-real-feelings/

Giving Prosthetics a Sense of Touch
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/425664/giving-prosthetics-a-sense-of-touch/

New prosthetic hand provides grip variation with motorised fingers (with
  video 3:15) 
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-11/08/prosthetic-hand

BeBionic3
http://bebionic.com/

Submitted by Joseph L. Ronzio