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Bionic fingertip gives sense of touch to amputee

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An amputee is able to feel rough or smooth textures in real-time using an artificial fingertip connected to nerves in his upper arm. Matthew Stock reports.

Added on the 08/03/2016 14:12:56 - Copyright : Reuters EN

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