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Amazing Robotics: A Hand That Can “Feel”

Good morning, SuperForest!

This weekend, I’ve found myself overwhelmed with water shortage/conservation research, downtown redevelopment sketches and land use planning midterms. That being so, I’m going to keep this one short and sweet.

We’ve covered robotic prosthetics before but recently, BBC News reported that a team of researchers from Italy and Sweden has developed what is believed to be “the first artificial hand that has feeling”. They’ve attached this robotic hand to the arm of a 22-year-old that lost his hand due to cancer and he receives this “feeling” sensation through the connection of his nerve endings to tiny electronic sensors.

Amazing. Just like Robin’s Gandhi shirt. : )

Love to all on this bright and beautiful Saturday.

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