Breakthrough hybrid prosthetic hand now features human touch via sensors

Advanced Prosthetic Hand Mimics Human Touch in Robotics Breakthrough

A recent breakthrough in robotics could help amputees regain some of their lost capabilities. The new prosthetic hand design combines layers of sensors with a hybrid robotic structure and machine learning algorithm that reads neuromorphically encoded signals to achieve human-like capabilities. Here's what you need to know. The Science of Gripping When you reach down and pick something up, it may seem like it happens automatically. The reality is…

Johns Hopkins: Prosthetic Hand Grasps Like a Human

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds, according to the university.  The system’s hybrid design is a first for robotic hands, which have typically been too rigid or too soft to replicate a human’s touch when handling objects of va…

Breakthrough hybrid prosthetic hand now features human touch via sensors

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), have developed a prosthetic hand designed to mimic the human touch. Led