Two people with paralysis in their hands were able to temporarily regain their sense of touch and feel the shape of objects, thanks to electrical brain stimulation. The approach could one day help ...

In a new study published this week, researchers debuted a bionic hand system that ... the path to restoring touch is becoming clearer.” The researchers recruited two people with spinal cord ...

Two new articles document progress in neuroprosthetic technology that lets people feel the ... different places on the hand. "We could evoke the feeling that you were touching something, but ...

This accomplishment is a massive leap forward for electrical brain stimulation and has helped two patients ... between touching and not touching something. But our hands experience far more ...

Such rich two-way communication between the robotic hand and brain raises hopes that ... more progress in restoring a lifelike sense of touch to people living with amputation or paralysis depended ...

As a star of some of the best action movies, Bruce Willis knows a thing or two about danger. But that knowledge has also given the retired acting legend a deep appreciation for the actual people ...

Craving human touch, singleton Helen Jane Campbell challenged herself to join a cuddle party and cosy up to total strangers.

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Our hands perform thousands of complex tasks every day – can artificial intelligence help robots match these extraordinary ...

Due to embedded sensors, the bionic hand senses the grasped object as if it were being grasped with the human hand, communicating the touch sensations ... For the study, two BCI participants ...