A team of researchers are aiming to provide a way for hand-wrist prostheses to move more naturally by enabling the hand and wrist to work simultaneously-known as two degrees of freedom-using electrical impulses generated by remnant muscles in the forearm. Traditional prostheses only work with one degree of freedom-that is, either the hand or the wrist can be in motion at any one time.
Researchers Aiming to Produce a Hand-Wrist Prosthesis with Two Degrees of Freedom
A team of researchers are aiming to provide a way for hand-wrist prostheses to move more naturally by enabling the hand and wrist to work simultaneously-known as two degrees of freedom-using electrical impulses generated by remnant muscles in the forearm. Traditional prostheses only work with one degree of freedom-that is, either the hand or the wrist can be in motion at any one time.