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Combining electrical and force signals boosts prosthetic hand accuracy
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Combining electrical and force signals boosts prosthetic hand accuracy

Graduate student Peyton Young works with a robotic arm controlled by electromyography (EMG) signals. Young has now developed a technique to use pressure...

Lightweight prosthetic hand matches human dexterity with 19 degrees of freedom
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Lightweight prosthetic hand matches human dexterity with 19 degrees of freedom

Demonstration of the prosthetic hand’s human-like gestures, gripping, operational functions, and patient experiments (Image by USTC). Credit: Hao Yang et al. A team...

New soft prosthetic hand offers natural bionic interfacing
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New soft prosthetic hand offers natural bionic interfacing

The full system integration showing the combination of HD-sEMG sensors on a soft socket, soft multi-synergistic hand, and the real-time neural synergistic control....