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  • Rice University

    Haptic feedback gives prosthetics 'muscle sense'

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    05.30.2017

    For all the actuators, artificial tendons and glitter cannons that researchers are packing into modern prosthetics, these devices still lack an noninvasive means of transmitting haptic feedback to its user. However a device developed by Rice University in partnership with the University of Pisa and the Italian Institute of Technology aims to do just that.