Bionic hand lets wearer feel what they're holding

Real-time nerve interface for mechanical hand that relates detailed haptic feedback.

"...by the final week he was able to differentiate between three shapes with 88 percent accuracy and between the hardness of three objects with 78.7 percent accuracy. "It is very intuitive," Micera says.

Using the bionic hand required Sørensen to have electrodes implanted in his arm, just above where it had been amputated nine years prior. Even though the nerves hadn't been in use, the prosthetic was able to translate the bionic hand's input into electrical signals that the nerves could understand."

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