Amputee with prosthetic arm holding a cherry tomato

Engineering’s Dustin Tyler works to restore sense of touch in robotic hands;

Brain implant allows man to feel touch on robotic hand

Spectrum: Dustin Tyler, associate professor of biomedical engineering, is working to restore the sense of touch in robotic hands by using electrical stimulation. While Bolu Ajiboye, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is not involved in the study, he said of Tyler’s work: “I fully expect it to work in other people.”