Why Would You Want a Prosthetic Hand That Feels Pain?
“After many years I felt my hand, as if a hollow shell, got filled with life again.”
At a lab at Johns Hopkins University, researchers are building a prosthetic hand unlike any other: It can sense pain.
It’s easy to understand why you might want a prosthesis that can feel the squishiness of a grape or the warmth of another person’s hand. But pain? Well, pain could be useful, too. “If you think about how we humans use pain, it’s on the pain-sensitive hand.
