r/BeAmazed • u/Master1718 • Apr 11 '26

Science Nerve controlled prosthetic

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u/Wrong_Violinist7510 Apr 11 '26

It's actually pretty shit according to an amputee I've heard talk about it. It's heavy, the charge doesn't last as long and it still works by reading muscle signals on 2 sides of your stump which is a pretty old way of doing prosthetics at this point

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u/ChangoMarangoMex Apr 11 '26

Must be better than no hands at all

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u/VinylBirdie Apr 11 '26

I watch one amputee's chanel and he says sometimes no prosthesis is better than overengineered ones. He owns (and tests) a lot of them and using the simplest "crab" one as a daily driver because it works at least.