MONKEY see, monkey do. Now they feel too. Rhesus macaques have learned to “feel” the texture of virtual objects without physically touching a thing. In the future, prosthetic limbs modelled on similar technology could return a sense of touch to amputees.
“Prosthetic limbs modelled on similar technology could return a sense of touch to people with amputations”
Using two-way communication between brain and machine, the monkeys manoeuvred a cursor with their minds and identified objects by texture, based on electrical feedback from the computer.
Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, and his colleagues implanted…
