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The Magic Touch

Scientists invent the Cyberhand, a brain-controlled robotoic hand with fingers that can actually feel
By Billy Baker Posted 03.03.2006 at 2:00 am 1 Comment

Last October we reported on the first mind-controlled bionic limb, a multimillion-dollar prosthetic arm built by scientists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago [â€A Toast to the Bionic Manâ€]. Now a team of European scientists led by Paolo Dario, a professor of biomedical robotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna in Pisa, Italy, has unveiled the first brain-controlled prosthetic hand.

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