But they need to adapt to robotic augmentation.
The daily lab sessions saw the participants focus their robot thumb training on tasks designed to enhance the cooperation between their hand and the Third Thumb, like single-handedly grabbing multiple balls or wine glasses. In so doing, the participants learned the basic gestures needed to use the thumb quickly, with improved motor control, hand-Thumb coordination, and dexterity directly correlated with training.
"Body augmentation could one day be valuable to society in numerous ways, such as enabling a surgeon to get by without an assistant, or a factory worker to work more efficiently," said Paulina Kieliba of the UCL's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, in the embargoed release."This line of work could revolutionize the concept of prosthetics, and it could help someone who permanently or temporarily can only use on hand, to do everything with that hand.
"Our study is the first one investigating the use of an augmentation device outside of a lab," said Kieliba in the embargoed release."It is the first augmentation study carried over multiple days of prolonged training, and the first to have an untrained comparison group.
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