'Hand That Sees' Offers New Hope to Amputees
From: Medical Design Technology - 05/03/2017

Led by biomedical engineers at Newcastle University, UK, and funded by the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), this bionic hand
is fitted with a camera which instantaneously takes a picture of the object
in front of it, assesses its shape and size and triggers a series of
movements in the hand.

Bypassing the usual processes which require the user to see the object,
physically stimulate the muscles in the arm and trigger a movement in the
prosthetic limb, the hand 'sees' and reacts in one fluid movement.

The researchers programmed the hand to perform four different "grasps" by
grouping objects according to the type of grip that would be needed to pick
them up.

The work is part of a larger research project to develop a bionic hand that
can sense pressure and temperature and transmit the information back to the
brain.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.mdtmag.com/news/2017/05/hand-sees-offers-new-hope-amputees
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2017/05/handthatsees (with video 0:34)

Links:
Kianoush Nazarpour
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/eee/staff/profile/kianoushnazarpour.html

A Game Changer for Amputees?
http://symbolic-mirage.blogspot.com/2017_05_03_archive.html

Deep learning-based artificial vision for grasp classification in myoelectric
  hands
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/aa6802/meta

New ‘Prosthetic With Eyes’ Increases Mobility for Amputees
http://www.rdmag.com/article/2017/05/new-prosthetic-eyes-increases-mobility-amputees

Unrelated:
Thumbs-up for mind-controlled robotic arm: Ten-dimensional anthropomorphic
  arm control in a human brain-machine interface: difficulties, solutions,
  and limitations
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2560/12/1/016011