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Neural engineering

Smart inflatable hand offers lighter, more affordable prosthetic

01 Sep 2021 Ben Lewis 
Inflatable robotic hand
Smart hand: The soft, elastic neuroprosthetic hand enables precise movement and delivers feedback, at a fraction of the weight and cost of comparable neuroprosthetics. (Courtesy: Xuanhe Zhao, Shaoting Lin et al)
So many of the actions that we perform every day rely on the precise movements of our hands. For peo

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Ben Lewis is a PhD student contributor to Physics World. Ben works at Imperial College London, where he is developing a new fluorescence-based method for studying the unusual G-quadruplex DNA structure inside live cells. Find out more about our student contributor networks
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