The US government has successfully built a prosthetic arm which lets its wearer actually feel things.
An unnamed 28-year-old patient paralysed by a spinal cord injury over a decade ago was given the prosthetic limb controlled directly by his brain. What was particularly significant was Darpa claimed he was the first ever human who was also able to feel the prosthetic fingers being pressed.
“We’ve completed the circuit,” said Justin Sanchez, manager of the program at blue-sky military research arm Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (Darpa). “By wiring a sense of touch from a mechanical hand directly into the brain, this work shows the potential for seamless bio-technological restoration of near-natural function.”
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