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\n Samoana Matagi was one of the four participants in a study that tested the capabilities of a new bionic hand. Here, Matagi wears the bionic hand on one arm and a common prosthetic called a body-powered hook on the other.
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Researchers have built a prosthetic hand that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can act a lot more like a natural one.<\/p>\n

The key is to have the hand recognize when the user wants to do something, then share control of the motions needed to complete the task.<\/p>\n

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The approach, which combined AI with special sensors, helped four people missing a hand simulate drinking from a cup, says Marshall Trout<\/u><\/a>, a researcher at the University of Utah and the study’s lead author.<\/p>\n

When the sensors and AI were helping, the participants could “very reliably” grasp a cup and pretend to take a sip, Trout says. But without this shared control of the bionic hand, he says, they “crushed it or dropped it every single time.”<\/p>\n

The success, described<\/u><\/a> in the journal Nature Communications<\/em>, is notable because “the ability to exert grasp force is one of the things we really struggle with in prosthetics right now,” says John Downey<\/u><\/a>, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, who was not involved in the research.<\/p>\n