18 hours agoYour brain feels an artificial hand for the first time
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)For the first time, the human brain has come to feel an artificial hand as if it were an artificial hand, thanks to an innovative technique that deceives it by combining visual and touch simulations with virtual reality, thanks to a polytechnic co-operation “Gemelli di Roma”, with Lozannean Polytech and the Super School “Sant Anna” in [...]
Researchers have worked to reproduce the sense of sight and touch when seen and captured by an object in a sillulatian way in patients so that their brain feels the prosthesis as if it were its own.
“We have simulated with the touch a peripheral nerve of the cut-off part so that touch information can be transmitted and that it looks like it's being felt by the robot”, explains research coordinator Silvetro Micera.
At the same time, the two patients wore virtual eyeglasses that showed him the robot's finger that was lit just when the touch simile was given.
Thanks to this combined simulation between sight and touch, the two people have not only felt the prosthetics as if they were their previous hand but have perceived their hand as whole and not as limited as it usually happens to those whose hands are cut”, Micera points out.
