Scientists from Italy and Sweden have been working on a robotic hand for 10 years. They say that this robotic hand have sensations like that of humans. The project named "Smarthand" uses nerve impulses that sends signals to the brain and back to the amputated site, thus allowing natural hand movements controlled directly by the brain.
Smarthand is an intricate prosthesis with four motors and forty sensors working to provide natural motion and sensations to the person using it. This is the first device of its kind that sends signals to the brain, enabling the user to feel with their fingers. It takes advantage of the phantom limb syndrome which is the sensation amputees have that their missing body part is still attached.
Although the project allows amputees to practically restore their lost hands, Smarthand is far from functioning equally with the normal hand which contains millions of nerves that makes it very complex. Yet still, this project is a helpful model in creating more complicated ones that will be as natural as the biological parts.
And for the first time, a 22-year old man who lost his hand due to cancer had been be able to feel and grab a bottle of water again with his new robotic hand. (see video below)
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I like this article very much. Robotic is very important now a days…
It will be good for people who are disable.I hope these products will be in market soon and people who have lost their hand in accident will get some relief.
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I think its very impossible to create an hand like human hand with senses.
This is a very interesting scientific breakthrough.
It really brings up issues about what makes us human, as well as how far a human can go in terms of replacing parts of their bodies with machines.
It is a very good article about the robotic hands by reading this article we can know how the technology is developing at a rapid phase.
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