An curved arrow pointing right. The Myo armband picks up subtle muscle gestures that can control prosthetics through Bluetooth. While the technology was developed for motion generated ...

Now, researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Imperial College London have unveiled a promising solution: a new soft prosthetic hand designed for more intuitive control.

This work enabled simultaneous direct control of four degrees of freedom of a myoelectric prosthetic hand for the first time. With my collaborators from the BioRobotics Institute at Scuola Superiore ...

The complexity of human movement stems from the central nervous system's ability to organize motion ... prosthetic devices to be designed in a way that aligns with the body’s existing control ...