The first bionic hand with a sense of touch that can be used outside of a lab was revealed by scientists in Rome. Up until this point the bionics had to be connected to large equipment in a lab to work and they’ve managed to get the system small enough to fit into a rucksack. The lady that used the prototype for six months loved it and felt like it was almost as good as having her real hand back. Once scientists can shrink things more then we’ll start to see these out on the market. I know a lot of amputees would love to get one.



Professor Silvestro Micera, a neuroengineer at EPFL in Lausanne and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa told me: “We are going more and more in the direction of science fiction movies like Luke Skywalker’s bionic hand in Star Wars – a fully controlled, fully natural, sensorised prosthesis, identical to the human hand.”

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