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National team to expand CWRU research restoring amputees’ sense of touch

FES, Prosthetics, ResearchBy mraetomic February 10, 2015

Case Western Reserve University researchers who helped restore a sense of touch to amputees in a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs lab in Cleveland are finalizing contract negotiations for a $4.4 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to speed development of a mobile system amputees can use anywhere. Read the full…

DARPA Tech Could Give Artificial Hands Sense of Touch

Cleveland FES Center, FES, Neural Interface, Prosthetics, ResearchBy mraetomic February 10, 2015

Veterans with prosthetic hands could someday regain their sense of touch thanks to a new DARPA initiative. It’s called the Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program, and the goal is to let amputees “feel” objects with technology that would send signals back and forth between the brain and artificial hand. Read the full article