Abstract:One of the limitation of current prosthetics is the ability to provide sensory feedback to the human user. Due to this constraint, approximately 60–80 percent of amputees experience a phenomenon known as phantom limb pain, an ongoing painful sensations that to the individual, seems to be coming from the part of the limb that is no longer there. The lack of sensory feedback also limits the intuitive control of the user's hand movement, i.e. sense of grip or position. To address these limitations, we created am … Show more
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