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Author : Thomas | Jul 26, 2018
A team of engineers at the Johns Hopkins University has developed a novel e-dermis that will enable amputees to perceive a real sense of touch through the fingertips of their prosthetics.
Made of fabric and rubber laced with sensors to mimic nerve endings, e-dermis recreates a sense of touch as well as pain by sensing stimuli and relaying the impulses back to the peripheral nerves.
The novel e-dermis conveys information to the amputee by stimulating peripheral nerves in the arm, making the so-called phantom limb (a feeling that a missing body part is still there) come to life.
"After many years, I felt my hand, as if a hollow shell got filled with life again," says the anonymous amputee who served as the team's principal volunteer tester.
The researchers plan to further develop the technology and better understand how to provide meaningful sensory information to amputees in the hopes of making the system ready for widespread patient use.
This e-dermis technology has a vast potential and could be used in robotics and even in astronauts gloves for space exploration.
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