| The main objectives
of the CYBERHAND Project are to increase the basic knowledge
of neural
regeneration, and sensory-motor control of the hand in humans
and to exploit this knowledge to
develop a new kind of hand prosthesis which will overcome
some of the drawbacks of current
systems. This new prosthesis will:
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be felt by an amputee as the lost natural limb delivering
her/him a natural sensory feedback by
means of the stimulation of some specific afferent nerves;
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be controlled in a very natural way by processing the
efferent neural signals coming from the
central nervous system (reducing the discomfort of the
current EMG-based control prosthesis).
- UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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