Episode on the article “ *Chronic Use of a Sensitized Bionic Hand Does Not Remap the Sense of Touch* ” ( Ortiz-Catalan et al. , Cell Reports, 2020 ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221112472031528X ) ). I discuss with Prof. Sliman Bensmaia ( https://oba.bsd.uchicago.edu/faculty/sliman-bensmaia-phd ) at the University of Chicago, with whom we published this article, how the long-term used of a bionic hand that elicits tactile sensory feedback in a location distinct to that...

Prof. Todd Kuiken ( https://www.sralab.org/researchers/todd-kuiken-md-phd ) developed Targeted Muscle Reinnervation ( TMR ( https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/183371 ) ) – a surgical method to rewire the nervous system of people with amputations to better interface with prosthetic limbs. He is the Emeritus Director of the Regenstein Foundation Center for Bionic Medicine ( https://www.sralab.org/research/labs/bionic-medicine ) at the Sherly Ryan AbilityLab (...

Interview with the senior authors of the article “ *Design and clinical implementation of an open-source bionic leg* ” ( Azocar et al. , Nat Biomed Eng , 2020 ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-020-00619-3 ) ), Prof. Elliott Rouse, Ph.D. ( https://me.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/elliott-rouse ) , at the University of Michigan, and Prof. Levi Hargrove, Ph.D. ( https://www.sralab.org/researchers/levi-hargrove-phd ) , at the Sherly Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern University. We discuss...

Interview with Dr. Gerald E. Loeb ( https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Loeb/Gerald ) , Professor on Biomedical Engineering and Neurology at the University of Southern California in L.A., USA. He has written hundreds of scientific articles and holds over 70 patents on medical devices ( google scholar ( https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Y7aNyh8AAAAJ ) ). He has conducted pioneer work on motor, visual, and auditory neuroprostheses, from basic and translational research...

Introduction to the show and what to expect.