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  • Prosthetic arms can provide controlled sensory feedback

    Apr 28, 2018 4:00 pm by Liz Ahlberg TouchstoneResearch
    Aadeel Akhtar, an M.D./Ph.D. student at Illinois, developed a control algorithm to give prosthetic arm users reliable sensory feedback. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

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    • Aadeel Akhtar, an M.D./Ph.D. student at Illinois, developed a control algorithm to give prosthetic arm users reliable sensory feedback. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

    'We no longer want the prosthetic hand to feel like a tool, we want it to feel like an extension of the body,' said Aadeel Akhtar, an M.D./Ph.D. student in the neuroscience program