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These artificial hands won’t be just dumb pinchers. Engineers at Otto Bock Health Care Products in Vienna are endowing them with technology called targeted muscle reinnervation, which connects the prostheses to nerve endings in the wearer’s arm so he or she has complete dexterity and the ability to “feel” what the hand is touching.










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Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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