"They're just not super functional. There's a massive delay between executing a function and then having the prosthetic actually do it. In my day-to-day life, it just became faster to figure out other ways to do things."
"Not many people use robotic limbs, and that's largely due to how horrible the control system is," says Connor Glass, CEO of Phantom Neuro.
In data shared exclusively with WIRED, 10 participants in a study conducted by Phantom used a wearable version of the company's sensors to control a robotic arm already on the market, achieving an average accuracy of 93.8 percent across 11 hand and wrist gestures.
The company is building a thin, flexible muscle implant to allow amputees a wider, more natural range of movement just by thinking about the gestures they want to make.
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