There is some really great working going on there, including a summer program where some students are making prosthetic hands for children with 3D printers. (extracreditblog.org)
2 years ago, for example, a group at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, reported giving people with prosthetic hands a sense of touch by wiring pressure sensors on the hands to peripheral nerves in their arms. (sciencemag.org)
It's a mechanical prosthetic hand made with a 3D printer using open - source software. (edutopia.org)