“Oh my God, this arm is part of me,” says Scott Embrey, who was able to use it to feel things.
Charles M. Greenspun, University of Chicago
Two people with paralysis of the hands were able to temporarily regain their sense of touch and sense of the shapes of objects, thanks to electrical stimulation of the brain. This approach could one day help people with spinal cord injuries do daily activities better by controlling a robotic arm that feels like their own.
There have been previous efforts to restore touch through brain stimulation, but they are… Fairly crude. “This was…