Feeling is believing: Bionic hand ‘knows’ what it’s touching, grasps like a human

robot and human shake hands

NeuroTech Harbor is proud to share that NTH Technical Director Nitish Thakor’s work on an advanced prosthetic hand that ‘knows’ what it is holding and carefully conforms and adjusts its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling the object was recently featured in an online publication by Johns Hopkins University!

Read more about Dr. Thakor’s work here: https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/03/05/prosthetic-robotic-hand/