2020 BME/ROB/MED Chestek, Cederna RPNI
Karen Sussex, an upper-limb amputee from Jackson, Mich., operates a Touch Bionics I-LIMB prosthetic hand to move a can of tomato paste during a testing session at a lab in the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI on June 13, 2019, for an advanced prosthetics study at U-M.
In this major advance for mind-controlled prosthetics, U-M research led by Paul Cederna, the Robert Oneal Collegiate Professor of Plastic Surgery and a professor of biomedical engineering, and Cindy Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, demonstrates an ultra-precise prosthetic interface technology that taps faint latent signals from nerves in the arm and amplifies them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.
For in-depth coverage of the research:
spotlight.engin.umich.edu/mind-control-prosthesis/
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
2020 BME/ROB/MED Chestek, Cederna RPNI
Karen Sussex, an upper-limb amputee from Jackson, Mich., operates a Touch Bionics I-LIMB prosthetic hand to move a can of tomato paste during a testing session at a lab in the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI on June 13, 2019, for an advanced prosthetics study at U-M.
In this major advance for mind-controlled prosthetics, U-M research led by Paul Cederna, the Robert Oneal Collegiate Professor of Plastic Surgery and a professor of biomedical engineering, and Cindy Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, demonstrates an ultra-precise prosthetic interface technology that taps faint latent signals from nerves in the arm and amplifies them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.
For in-depth coverage of the research:
spotlight.engin.umich.edu/mind-control-prosthesis/
Photo: Robert Coelius/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing