Artificial Intelligence And Prosthetics Join Forces To Create New Generation Bionic Hand

A team of scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Göttingen have teamed up to create a'next generation' bionic hand. This bionic hand is special because it uses artificial intelligence to improve its functionality. A schematic of the bionic hand the team have built.University of Göttingen The work carried out by the team and published in Science Robotics, shows that with the help of machine learning, fluid motion of prosthetics can be achieved. At the moment, movement of prosthetics is controlled by motors that are stimulated with external signals from surrounding muscles in the amputee. In the new bionic hand, however, the patient's intentions are interpreted by a human-machine interface which then sends signals to the prosthetic.