Man controls cybernetic hand with thoughts

December 4, 2009 | Source: Crave

(Campus Bio-Medico di Roma)

A brain-controlled bionic hand attached to an amputee’s nervous system via electrodes implanted into the remaining part of his left arm has been developed by scientists at Pisa’s Valdera Polo Sant’Anna School.

The patient was able to experience sensations when grasping and making a fist.