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E-Skin Brings Sense of Touch, Pain to Prosthetic Hands

1,124 views · Published 25 June 2018 · 3:51 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Rajamanickam Antonimuthu · 2018 · Science & Technology

Amputees often experience the sensation of a “phantom limb”—a feeling that a missing body part is still there.

That sensory illusion is closer to becoming a reality thanks to a team of engineers at the Johns Hopkins University that has created an electronic skin. When layered on top of prosthetic hands, this e-dermis brings back a real sense of touch through the fingertips.

Made of fabric and rubber laced with sensors to mimic nerve endings, e-dermis recreates a sense of touch as well as pain by sensing stimuli and relaying the impulses back to the peripheral nerves.
News Source: http://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/3/19/eaat3818/tab-figures-data

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