Prosthetic Limbs Offer a Sense of Touch
From: IEEE The Institute - 08/07/2013
By: Monica Roszenfeld

Sensory technology could allow patients with prosthetic limbs to feel contact

A new study "Behavioral Demonstration of a Somatosensory Neuroprosthesis"
published in May in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation
Engineering gives hope that those with artificial hands could regain their
sense of touch. By surgically connecting the brain with an artificial
fingertip equipped with sensors, researchers found that it is possible for
animals to feel contact and pressure with their hands, paving the way for
human trials.

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http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-focus/technology-topic/prosthetic-limbs-offer-a-sense-of-touch

Links:
Behavioral Demonstration of a Somatosensory Neuroprosthesis
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6475190

Sliman Bensmaia
http://pondside.uchicago.edu/oba/faculty/bensmaia_s.html

Somatosensory Research Lab
http://bensmaialab.uchicago.edu/