Dennis Aabo Sørensen lost his left hand in a fireworks accident during a family holiday when he was in his mid-twenties. Last year, the 36-year old Danish man got a chance to test out a new ...

Igor Spetic lost his right hand in 2010 and had the system implanted in May 2012, while Keith Vonderhuevel lost his hand in 2004 and had the system implanted in January 2013.

In the midst of the co-development of artificial intelligence and robotic advancements, developing technologies that enable ...

"Improved motor, sensory, and cognitive recovery of hand and arm function after stroke." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 10 January 2022. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 01 / 220107121457.htm>.

This one’s far from the first sensory substitution devices we’ve covered, though, as quite a few of them were mechanical in nature – the less moving parts, the better, we reckon!

The researchers have found that a certain population of neurons in the spinal cord — called the dI3 interneurons — assess information from sensory neurons in the hands and then send the appropriate ...