Bionic prostheses usually look futuristic and cool in scientific articles and commercials, but most users consider them “stupid” devices that are tedious to use. Most of these prostheses are primitive to control; the user must tell the prosthesis what and how to do in order to achieve the simplest result, such as picking up a cup of coffee. Researchers at the University of Utah have proposed transferring some control of the prosthesis to a computer so that it decides how to move and the user focuses on what needs to be done.
Author: Alexander Ershov
Alexander Ershov
Science and data journalist with a path that runs from academia to Big Tech. At 2Digital, he highlights the larger forces shaping the crossroads of IT and biomedicine, steering past the noise to focus on shifts that might actually matter. He writes from the not-so-radical conviction that basic science — and a bit of common sense — tends to outlast buzzwords, and that most “new” tech has already had a quiet debut in the lab.
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