Biomedical engineers at ASU and Florida International University have developed a hand prosthesis that can connect with users’ nervous systems and enable them to experience the sensation of touch. Fulton Schools Associate Professor James Abbas (pictured), director of the ASU Center for Adaptive Neural Systems, helped to lead the 12-year-long project to design and build the Neural-Enabled Prosthetic Hand System. Abbas explains that the first-of-its-kind hand prosthesis uses components similar to those in electrode ear implants to give people “feeling” in their thumbs and forefingers.