An artificial nerve system gives prosthetic devices and robots a sense of touch

[rangerrebew]

Public Release: 31-May-2018
An artificial nerve system gives prosthetic devices and robots a sense of touch

Stanford University

Stanford and Seoul National University researchers have developed an artificial sensory nerve system that can activate the twitch reflex in a cockroach and identify letters in the Braille alphabet.

The work, reported May 31 in Science, is a step toward creating artificial skin for prosthetic limbs, to restore sensation to amputees and, perhaps, one day give robots some type of reflex capability.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/su-aan053118.php

[thackney]

This would have been great for my mom when I was growing up.

She was always down to her last nerve.  And I was always on it, wearing it down.