Bionic Prosthetic Limbs (extended)

 

Mind-controlled arm prostheses that “feel” are now a part of everyday life. Watch the mini movie below to learn more. 

For the first time, people with arm amputations can experience sensations of touch in a mind-controlled arm prosthesis that they use in everyday life. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports on three Swedish patients who have lived, for several years, with this new technology – one of the world’s most integrated interfaces between human and machine.

 

More specific topics:

1. Feeling with the bionic prosthesis:

 

2. Living in Northern Sweden with a mind controlled bionic prosthesis:

 

3. Living with a bionic prosthesis:

 

4. Robot prosthesis in Hollywood vs. Reality:

 

5. How the brain reacts to an artificial limb:

 

6. The scientist's own story:

 

 

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