Tuesday, August 28, 2012

euronews hi-tech: Getting to grips with an artificial finger



Published on Aug 28, 2012 by
http://www.euronews.com/ Surgeons at Malmö's University Hospital in Sweden are used to treating patients with injured hands or fingers, but sometimes the only option they have is to amputate.

Modern prosthetics can help to restore the ability to grip or manipulate objects, to carry things or even write, but they do nothing to replace the sense of touch that goes when a patient loses a limb.

So scientists are looking into ways of mimicking the human nervous system to create artificial senses.
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