DARPA Moving Forward on Developing Prostheses with Sense of Touch (VIDEO)
 

DARPA Moving Forward on Developing Prostheses with Sense of Touch (VIDEO)
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DARPA has been spending a lot of money in the last decade developing advanced prosthetic tech**logies to help wounded military folks get back to a **rmal life. While the organization has helped develop the highly articulating Luke Arm, it doesn’t have the sense of touch, a major component of a true prosthetic that amputees really look forward to. To help with that, DARPA an**unced that it’s approved funding for*Phase 1 of its Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program.

The teams receiving the funds, which include Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Draper Laboratory and others, will be using intramuscular electrodes to control prostheses while sending touch sensor data back to the brain to be interpreted as tactile sensation.



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Here’s a video DARPA put together previewing some of the tech**logies that may play a role in the HAPTIX project:





DARPA: HAPTIX Starts Work to Provide Prosthetic Hands with Sense of Touch…

(hat tip: Robohub)

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