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In a First, a Prosthetic Limb Can Sense Temperature Like a Living Hand

www.smithsonianmag.com In a First, a Prosthetic Limb Can Sense Temperature Like a Living Hand

The advance may help users feel a greater sense of human connection through touch

In a First, a Prosthetic Limb Can Sense Temperature Like a Living Hand

The device provides a realistic sense of hot and cold in the missing “phantom” hand by delivering thermal information to nerve areas on the amputee’s residual limb that the brain believes are still connected to the missing hand.

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