With the first thought-controlled bionic leg pioneered in Chicago, the next steps for smart prosthetics are refining ... was a news associate at the social-news app Flipboard, and his work has ...

A San Diego-based bionic company has unveiled a new prosthetic hand that doesn’t ... natural feeling of touch to give users a genuine sense of what they are holding. Furthermore, the hand ...

Ten years ago, Scott Pelley reported on robotic prosthetics that could be moved with the mind, but there was no sense of touch. Later, Bensmaia, in collaboration with a team of researchers at the ...

A glove and armband that gives people with upper limb prosthetics a sense of touch through haptic ... the feedback settings through a mobile app. The app gives users the ability to adjust the ...

For the first time, a functional artificial limb has been fitted with fingertip sensors that allow an ordinary prosthetic hand to sense and respond to temperature just as a living hand does.

Fine tuning sensors on prosthetics includes incorporating the sense of touch into a device to be as close to the sensations felt by a natural limb as can be. The two began working together last ...

There are already a number of experimental prosthetic hands that provide users ... The MiniTouch system takes things further, as it allows users to sense the temperature of items that they're ...

A new report claims Google's next phones will herald the arrival of a feature called Pixel Sense that will ingest data from virtually every Google app on your phone, fueling a new personalized ...

A new device makes it possible for a person with an amputation to sense temperature with a prosthetic hand. The technology is a step toward prosthetic limbs that restore a full range of senses ...

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