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Brain prostheses create a sense of touch: Infrared signaling could create sense of touch in artificial limbs

February 17, 2013 by

Infrared sensing might be built into a whole-body prosthesis for paraplegics so patients wearing the "exoskeleton" could have sensory information about where their limbs are and how objects feel when they touch them.

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