[HIGHLIGHTS] Prosthesis with bionic touch to feel cold and heat: "It's like having a connection with someone"

17 amputees have felt their phantom hand experience temperature changes thanks to new technology from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) The technology was successfully tested in 17 of 27 patients. "It was the first time in 20 years that I could feel the warmth of another person with my phantom hand.

I felt like someone was touching my missing hand," says amputee Roberto Renda from Rome, Italy. Three paraplegics manage to move their trunk and legs thanks to spinal cord neurostimulation.