'Bionic hand' can now sense shape, texture

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'Bionic hand' can now sense shape, texture

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/39-bionic-hand-39-now-sense-shape-texture-115752028.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/WS0X7r65Ea5JqtT4LPMe2A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT03NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/US-AFPRelax/68061_web.bcd60111703.original.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Amputee Dennis Aabo Sørensen wears sensory feedback enabled prosthetic in Rome in March 2013." align="left" title="Amputee Dennis Aabo Sørensen wears sensory feedback enabled prosthetic in Rome in March 2013." border="0" /></a>An amputee with a bionic hand has for the first time been able to feel the texture and shape of objects in his grasp, European researchers said Wednesday. The study was led by Micera and Stanisa Raspopovic and colleagues at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and the BioRobotics Institute in Pisa, Italy. Their findings appear in the US peer-reviewed journal Science Translational Medicine. &quot;When I held an object, I could feel if it was soft or hard, round or square,&quot; said Dennis Aabo Sorenson, a 36-year-old man from Denmark who lost his left hand in a fireworks accident.</p><br clear="all"/>

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