The advance may help users feel a greater sense of human connection through touch

The device provides a realistic sense of hot and cold in the missing “phantom” hand by delivering thermal information to nerve areas on the amputee’s residual limb that the brain believes are still connected to the missing hand.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    141·
    5 months ago

    Lol, I get your point, but for right now the more we can make these feel like normal limbs to the people who need them, the better.

    No need to further press down the gas on the potential dystopia. Welcome to your job at the smeltery, please enter surgery room 4 for your mandatory limb replacement with company owned propriatary hardware that is set for our needs to turn you into a disposable meat puppet and blind you of senses of danger, because accounting found that was cheaper than proper safety or using actual robots.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      52·
      5 months ago

      Pretty sure I saw this in a 60’s comic book, lol.

      As dystopian as that is, I imagine it’s a whole lot cheaper and more stable to just make a robot and drop a brain into it… Wait, wait, I mean build a robot and develop some kind of interface that enables humans to control them quickly and accurately.

      Ah, hell, maybe that comic was right after all.