Thought-controlled robot hand created

Published: 10:23AM Thursday December 03, 2009 Source: ONE News

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Scientists in Europe say they have connected a robot hand to an amputee, which allows him to feel sensations and control it with his thoughts.

The Italian-led team implanted electrodes into the arm of a 26-year-old man who had lost his left hand and forearm in a car accident.

The patient said it was a strange sensation but during the month-long experiment he learned to wriggle the robotic fingers independently, make a fist and grab objects.

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