Prosthetic touch for amputees can now be developed and safely tested on non- amputees says a study. The technology to deliver this sophisticated tactile information was developed by Silvestro Micera and his team at EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and SSSA Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna together with Calogero Oddo and his team at SSSA. The stimulation felt almost like what I would feel with my hand says amputee Dennis Aabo Sorensen about the artificial fingertip connected to his stump. Sorensen is the first person in the world to recognize texture using a bionic fingertip connected to electrodes that were surgically
