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British scientists have developed an artificial hand that is as deft at handling objects as a real one. Homer Rahnejat and Russel Speight of the Bradford University in northern England, in association with Medi Mehdian of the Greenwich University, London, have constructed a prototype hand that has 16 degrees of freedom, enabling it to move as well as a human hand.

Says Rahnejat, "We hope to design a neuro-synthesiser that can convey signals to the artificial hand in a form it can interpret mechanically, so that the wearer of the hand has only to think of the action he wants to perform."

Publication Date: 
14/08/1995
Down to Earth [2]
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Medical Research [3], Industrial Technology [4], United Kingdom (UK) [5]
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