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Scientists trick the brain into sensing the movement of a prosthetic

Researchers have created a new technology to trick the brain into thinking it can sense a prosthetic limb moving, just like it might sense an actual muscle moving.

Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic have created a new technology to trick the brain into thinking it can sense a prosthetic limb moving, just like it might sense an actual muscle moving.

“One of the things motorized prosthetics are missing is a sense of in Science Translational Medicine.

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