Cybernetic Hand Interfaces with Severed Nerves
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This prosthetic hand is controlled by nerve impulses, and also has touch sensors which stimulate the user's sensory nerves.
Developed by a team of engineers in Italy and Sweden, it has been surgically attached to the arm of a 22-year-old man who lost his own hand to cancer.
Developed by a team of engineers in Italy and Sweden, it has been surgically attached to the arm of a 22-year-old man who lost his own hand to cancer.
Oct 22, 2009 9:45 PM
Re: Cybernetic Hand Sewn onto Nerves of Missing Arm
This is very interesting.... but I think the more interesting aspect of this clip is where did he get that Gandhi shirt?
By: osmkc
Re: Cybernetic Hand Interfaces with Severed Nerves
Ever since I was a kid I thought it would be cool to have robotic body parts... I guess I watched too mcuh inspector Gadget.
If I was that guy though, I would quit my day job and go into robotics. I'd love to make all sorts of attatchments for that thing.
If I was that guy though, I would quit my day job and go into robotics. I'd love to make all sorts of attatchments for that thing.
By: hypersapien
Re: Cybernetic Hand Interfaces with Severed Nerves
Losing his hand to cancer is a convenient lie...we all know his father chopped it off when he refused to join him and bring peace to the galaxy...
...ahem...
Prosthetics is an interesting field in many ways, but usually the ones who need these advances cant pay this kind of advanced gizmos... That is, unless some kind of socialiced health service pays for it. Wich kind of blows the tired argument of socialized medicine killing medical R+D. (Italy has a socialiced health service and Switzerland a private one but heavily policied by the goverment).
...ahem...
Prosthetics is an interesting field in many ways, but usually the ones who need these advances cant pay this kind of advanced gizmos... That is, unless some kind of socialiced health service pays for it. Wich kind of blows the tired argument of socialized medicine killing medical R+D. (Italy has a socialiced health service and Switzerland a private one but heavily policied by the goverment).
By: El_Hombre_Malo
