Robotic Hand Can Feel

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The SMARTHAND is a little different to a regular inanimate prosthesis: it is connected to nerves in the arm. The hand’s owner can feel the robotic prosthesis and use it much like one would use a natural hand.

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by C. S. Magor - Oct 22, 2009

by C. S. Magor - Oct 24, 2009

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
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  • Christian
    4 November 2009 at 11:57 am
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    DEKA has nothing to do with this hand, which has been developed in Italy (@Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), for a European project named SMARTHAND.

    • C. S. Magor
      4 November 2009 at 12:18 pm
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      Thank you for the correction.

  • Christian
    4 November 2009 at 6:57 am
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    DEKA has nothing to do with this hand, which has been developed in Italy (@Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), for a European project named SMARTHAND.

    • C. S. Magor
      4 November 2009 at 7:18 am
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      Thank you for the correction.

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