A Soft Pneumatic Actuator as a Haptic Wearable Device for Upper Limb Amputees: Toward a Soft Robotic Liner.

Object manipulation and fluid, goal-directed, movements require sensory information for effective execution. Amputees lose this intrinsic feedback when controlling their artificial limbs and must instead rely on visual information to compensate. Here, we describe an application for providing touch and kinesthetic information to amputees. We report on a soft robotic pneumatic actuator approach that...