A new Italian bionic hand is
more sensitive than limbs made of flesh and blood, it was
claimed at a robotics conference in Rome Thursday.
The hand made by Biorobotica was first pioneered by
researcher Paolo Dario in the 1980s, who created the first
connection to a nervous system.
The hand enables users to orient in the dark, researchers
said, while its neural interface enables people to feel shapes.
The invention is the fruit of a collaboration between
Silvestro Micera, of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa an
the Politecnico Federale in Lausanne, and Paolo Maria Rossini,
of the Rome teaching hospital Policlinico universitario Agostino
Gemelli - Università Cattolica di Roma.
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