Prosthetic Hand ‘Knows’ What It’s Touching!

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You have to give those Johns Hopkin’s engineers a hand…for developing a genuinely unique prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other objects with human like sensitivity and precision.

Such ability to conform and adjust the grip is novel because, say the researchers, robotic hands have typically been too rigid or too soft to replicate a human’s touch when handling objects of varying textures and materials. Their work, “A natural biomimetic prosthetic hand with neuromorphic tactile sensing for precise and compliant grasping,” appears in the March 5, 2025, edition of ScienceAdvances.