Bionic arm combines intuitive motor control, touch and grip for the first time

A bionic arm that combined intuitive motor control, touch and grip will allow amputees feel the sensation of feeling objects, its developers claim. Putting touch, grip and motor control together, worked to trick the senses and brain of the wearer into thinking the prosthetic was a real human hand, Prof Marasco said. Scroll down for video A bionic arm that combined intuitive motor control, touch and grip will allow amputees feel the sensation of feeling objects, its developers claim This is the first prosthetic limb that is able to test all key functions of a hand at the same time, and uses a brain-computer interface to trigger the interaction HOW IT WORKS: BIONIC LIMB SENDS SIGNALS TO AND FROM THE BRAIN The system is the first to test all three sensory and motor functions in a neural-machine interface all at once in a prosthetic arm. Lead investigator Professor Paul Marasco, of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, said test subjects felt one of their hands was moving, even though they didn't have a hand, and felt as if their fingers were touching things, even though they had no fingers One of the volunteers, Claudia Mitchell, aged 41, said of the sensation of using a smartphone with the arm: 'When I lean it back it's touching my 'finger',' adding 'I can actually tell which one. Putting touch, grip and motor control together, worked to trick the senses and brain of the wearer into thinking the prosthetic was a real human hand, Prof Marasco said Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control Scientists have created an inflatable robotic hand that costs a fraction of more rigid prosthetic limbs and gives amputees real-time tactile control.