The first bionic hand with a sense of touch has been developed. Almerina Mascarello is the first person to be fitted with the sensitive bionic hand.

‘The bionic hand helps the user to detect if the object is hard or soft and allows to complete daily tasks.’

The sensory features bionic hand's helps the user to detect whether an object is hard or soft, allows to complete daily tasks, which was previously impossible with prosthetics.




"The feeling is spontaneous as if it were your real hand; you're finally able to do things that before were difficult, like getting dressed, putting on shoes—all mundane but important things-you feel complete," described Mascarello.
The sensors in the hands pick up data and then is translated by a small computer into a language that the human brain can understand.
Small electrodes implanted into the nerves of the users' upper arm help in transporting these signals to the brain.
The world's first sensitive bionic hand has been created in the year 2014. But, its accompanying equipment had been too large to leave the laboratory.
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Scientists are downsizing the device until its current portable version can fit into a backpack and commercialize in the future.
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Source-Medindia