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Biomedical engineers from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Chicago are testing a new device that could offer new hope to patients with breast cancer.
Temperature is one of the hardest aspects of touch to re-create for prosthetic users. This tiny patch could help people with amputated limbs sense coldness.
Illustration © 2021 Cynthia Turner Imagine if our sense of touch was no longer limited by physical location. An engineer on Earth could have the sensation of holding and manipulating a tool in space; a medical student could experience the pressure of a surgeon’s grip on a scalpel cutting through skin; or a physician could remotely control a robotic arm and actually feel for swollen glands in a patient’s neck. These are some of the uses of the NeuroReality avatar system that the Human Fusions Institute team has contemplated. One day last August, Case Western Reser...