A project run by St Vincent 's Hospital 's Aikenhead Centre for Medical Science and Melbourne University has resulted in the creation of a robotic arm that can give amputees their sense of touch and increased movement . The partnership successfully managed to send brain signals to a robotic arm , and now they have to look to send the signals back to get a feeling of touch . The research has been going on for decades , but tests will now be underway to see if scientists can access how the arm reads and interprets signals .
A project run by St Vincent's Hospital's Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery and Melbourne University has resulted in the creation of a robotic arm that could give amputees their sense of touch and increased movement. The partnership successfully managed to send brain signals to a robotic arm, and now they need to look to send the signals back to regain a feeling of touch. The research has been going on for years, but tests will now be underway to see if scientists can access how the brain reads and interprets signals.