Robot hand 'more sensitive than flesh and blood limb'

(ANSA) - Rome, February 21 - A new Italian bionic hand is more sensitive than limbs made of flesh and blood, it was claimed at a robotics conference in Rome Thursday.
    The hand made by Biorobotica was first pioneered by researcher Paolo Dario in the 1980s, who created the first connection to a nervous system.
    The hand enables users to orient in the dark, researchers said, while its neural interface enables people to feel shapes.
    The invention is the fruit of a collaboration between Silvestro Micera, of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa an the Politecnico Federale in Lausanne, and Paolo Maria Rossini, of the Rome teaching hospital Policlinico universitario Agostino Gemelli - Università Cattolica di Roma.