Using a robotic Third Thumb can impact how the hand is represented in the brain, a new study has found.
Researchers trained people to use a robotic extra thumb and found they could effectively carry out dexterous tasks, like building a tower of blocks using the one hand.
Researchers said participants trained to use the thumb also increasingly felt like it was a part of their body.
Designer Dani Clode started developing the device, called the Third Thumb, as part of an award-winning graduate project at the Royal College of Art, seeking to reframe the way we view prosthetics, from replacing a lost function, to an extension of the human body.
Robotic Third Thumb changes how hand represented in brain – study
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