The quest for a life-like prosthetic hand

On not writing

Hey there, it’s been a while.

Acknowledgements

It is now just over a week after the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, and I am happy to report that everything worked!

At the exhibition

We’re in London! Earlier today we met the Newcastle team at the Royal Society and set up our stand.

When we started this journey, we had huge ideas that we slowly trimmed down to fit our 2 x 4 metre space…

From forces to angles

So far, we have converted our electromyography signal, which is the electrical signal generated by a muscle when it…

Muscle Contraction Dynamics

In our electromyography data processing journey so far, we’ve gone from this:

Voices of prosthesis users, part 2

Guest post by Helen Millward

Graham likes to joke about his prosthetic hand. He once told someone that he lost his hand due to a shark attack off the Great Barrier Reef while working as a scuba instructor.

Activation Dynamics

Let’s get back to our data processing.

May round-up

It seems like ages since my last post! The truth is, a lot has been happening at work recently, including quite a lot of writing. It appears that there is a limit to how much I can write at any given time. A few times recently I opened a new document, ready to write a blog post, only to find myself half…