Principles of human movement augmentation and the challenges in making it a reality

J Eden, M Bräcklein, J Ibáñez, DY Barsakcioglu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Augmenting the body with artificial limbs controlled concurrently to one's natural limbs has
long appeared in science fiction, but recent technological and neuroscientific advances …

Human augmentation by wearable supernumerary robotic limbs: review and perspectives

D Prattichizzo, M Pozzi, TL Baldi… - Progress in …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Supernumerary robotic limbs (SRLs) are wearable robots designed to enhance the
sensorimotor abilities of humans. SRLs can be used to compensate for lost functions in …

Robotic hand augmentation drives changes in neural body representation

P Kieliba, D Clode, RO Maimon-Mor, TR Makin - Science robotics, 2021 - science.org
Humans have long been fascinated by the opportunities afforded through augmentation.
This vision not only depends on technological innovations but also critically relies on our …

The neural resource allocation problem when enhancing human bodies with extra robotic limbs

G Dominijanni, S Shokur, G Salvietti… - Nature Machine …, 2021 - nature.com
The emergence of robotic body augmentation provides exciting innovations that will
revolutionize the fields of robotics, human–machine interaction and wearable electronics …

Chromoanagenesis: a piece of the macroevolution scenario

F Pellestor, V Gatinois - Molecular Cytogenetics, 2020 - Springer
Over the last decade, new types of massive and complex chromosomal rearrangements
based on the chaotic shattering and restructuring of chromosomes have been identified in …

The Multiscale Wisdom of the Body: Collective Intelligence as a Tractable Interface for Next‐Generation Biomedicine

M Levin - BioEssays, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The dominant paradigm in biomedicine focuses on genetically‐specified components of
cells and their biochemical dynamics, emphasizing bottom‐up emergence of complexity …

A bidirectional soft biomimetic hand driven by water hydraulic for dexterous underwater gras**

H Wang, H Xu, FJ Abu-Dakka, V Kyrki… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotics shows considerable promise for various underwater applications. Soft grippers
as end-effectors are particularly useful for compliant and robust gras** compared to rigid …

Morphology, connectivity, and encoding features of tactile and motor representations of the fingers in the human precentral and postcentral gyrus

G Mastria, E Scaliti, C Mehring, E Burdet… - Journal of …, 2023 - jneurosci.org
Despite the tight coupling between sensory and motor processing for fine manipulation in
humans, it is not yet totally clear which specific properties of the fingers are mapped in the …

Towards human motor augmentation by voluntary decoupling beta activity in the neural drive to muscle and force production

M Bräcklein, J Ibáñez, DY Barsakcioglu… - Journal of Neural …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Effective human motor augmentation should rely on biological signals that can be
volitionally modulated without compromising natural motor control. Approach. We provided …

Neural signatures of motor imagery for a supernumerary thumb in VR: an EEG analysis

H Alsuradi, J Hong, A Sarmadi, R Volcic, H Salam… - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
Human movement augmentation is a rising field of research. A promising control strategy for
augmented effectors involves utilizing electroencephalography through motor imagery (MI) …