On 20 February 2013, Andrew reported the following news at Neuro Gadget
Researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland announced the first clinical trials of an advanced new bionic hand. Unlike almost all forearm prosthetics in clinical use today, it is designed to not only receive it’s movement input from patients, but also send back touch information along the same nerve channels to give them a sense of touch.