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Those who have lost a hand or foot can now sense temperature changes on surfaces they touch with their prosthetic replacements.  Swiss bioengineers have developed a temperature sensor that, when attached to say a prosthetic finger, transmits signals to thermal electrodes attached to the healthy arm or forearm.  Touching a hot or cold surface immediately heats or cools the healthy limb and the brain integrates the information so that the wearer senses a temperature shift in the prosthesis.    Temperature sensors for artificial limbs will add yet another dimension to already developed touch sensors to make an amputee’s daily living experience more realistic and safer…someday soon.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf6121

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