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 ...

Using this new memristor, the research team built an artificial sensory nervous system capable of recognizing touch and pain, and applied it to a robotic hand to test its performance.

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.

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 ...

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An 5×6 array of such “tactile” pixels is placed on the back of the hand and fingers. The examples provided show it to be a decent substitution.