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The quest for a life-like prosthetic hand

Tracking the progress towards our Royal Society Summer Science Exhibit 'Progressive Prosthetics'!

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Dimitra Blana in The quest for a life-like prosthetic hand

Dec 13, 2018

Experiment results

Where were we? Oh yes. We want to control a prosthetic hand with our computer model. But first, we want to test whether it…

Muscle activity processing

When muscles contract, they generate electricity that we can measure with a technique called electromyography (EMG). We get something that looks like this:

Data collection part 2

This post is a bit late because earlier this week I was on strike, along with many other UK university staff, protesting against unfair and unnecessary changes in our pensions. If the dispute is not resolved, my work on our Royal Society exhibit (and everything else) will be very limited…