Making prosthetic limbs feel more natural
From: MIT News - 05/31/2017
By: Anne Trafton

Muscle grafts could help amputees sense and control artificial limbs.

MIT researchers are developing a new surgical approach that would allow
amputees to receive sensory feedback from their prosthetic limbs and improve
their ability to control them.

A new surgical technique devised by MIT researchers could allow prosthetic
limbs to feel much more like natural limbs. Through coordination of the
patient’s prosthetic limb, existing nerves, and muscle grafts, amputees would
be able to sense where their limbs are in space and to feel how much force is
being applied to them.

This type of system could help to reduce the rejection rate of prosthetic
limbs, which is around 20 percent.

Read the entire article at:
http://news.mit.edu/2017/making-prosthetic-limbs-feel-more-natural-0531

Link:
On prosthetic control: A regenerative agonist-antagonist myoneural interface
http://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/eaan2971.full