After an accidental and tragic arm-lopping, Mark Lesek’s early efforts to find a suitable prosthesis didn’t really pan out. Lesek, a mechanical engineer by trade, took matters into his own hand(s). He made one.
It might sound like cruel or unusual punishment to fool an amputee into thinking their robotic hand has feeling, but the prospect is a promising shortcut to mapping artificial limbs to a patient’s nerves.
