Mind-controlled prosthetic arm that amputees can feel to hit trials this year

Researchers have developed a prototype prosthetic hand that sends information two ways: from the brain to the hand and vice versa. The mind-controlled hand, which is connected by electrodes to two of the primary nerves in the arm, is being called "the first prosthetic that will provide real-time sensory feedback for grasping" by Silvestro Micera of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, who is leading work on the project. Yesterday, at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Amer...