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“From the moment I woke up at the hospital after my accident, I could still feel my missing hand,” says Massimo Munzi. “I’ve been working on controlling my phantom hand with my mind ever since, contracting the muscles of my missing hands and fingers, mentally training just in case.”…just in case the right bionic technology becomes available. Convinced that commercial prosthetics can be improved, Munzi is invested in ongoing projects to develop bionic technology in a collaboration between EPFL and INAIL Hospital in Italy.If a research project owes its success to objective factors – excellence, financial resources, the working environment, etc. – it also owes it to an important element that cannot be controlled: the human one. An idea, a desire, a coincidence, or an encounter is sometimes all it takes to make progress, as demonstrated by Munzi, a hand amputee, and Jonathan Muheim, a doctoral student at EPFL. Their personal motivations came together, driving neuroprosthetics research forwards.<h2>From accident to being a part of a research community</h2>In 1990, Munzi was working in the agriculture industry. On the terrain, his hand got caught in the gears of a laboring tractor as he was trying to free a large piece of fabric that got stuck there. His hand was amputated soon afterwards. He currently works in a supermarket, responsible for the cashiers and inventory.“I’ve always wanted to improve prosthetics and get involved in a research project,” explains Munzi. “I’d like to help improve control, towards imitating a healthy hand, that’s why I never stopped training my phantom hand, my body and my mind, to be the best possible candidate for developing new technology, to help other amputees and myself one day.”In 2020, his idea became reality when during one of his usual check-ups for his prosthetic hand at INAIL center, in Bologna, Massimo encountered a research team from EPFL. Munzi volunteered for a first experiment, then started to work with Jonathan Muheim, an EPFL robotics Master’s student at the time, and Francesco Iberite a PhD student from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, who were investigating phantom temperature sensations supervised by Solaiman Shokur and Silvestro Micera of the Translational Neural Engineering Lab at EPFL’s Neuro-X.The team co-authored a study published in Science in 2023 that restores feelings of warmth and cold in the phantom hand of amputees, the basis for Muheim’s Master’s thesis for which he received the SSBE Student Award (Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering). Muheim recently received the enable grant from EPFL’s Tech Transfer Office to further develop the device, and a start-up in Italy will be integrating the technology into commercial prosthetics for amputees.“Some of our tests are long and boring, and volunteers like Munzi stay committed and focused,” says Muheim who is now a doctoral student developing some of the first socially-oriented bionic technology. “Massimo can feel his phantom hand, sadly this is not the case for all amputees, which is why it is so precious to work with him.”The amputee regularly participates in experiments with non-invasive prosthetic technology, ranging from temperature feedback to exploratory experiments about other sensory feedback, sometimes coming to Geneva at Campus Biotech days at a time.“Massimo takes holiday time to come to Geneva for the experiments. He doesn’t speak the language. He’s full of determination. He’s a devoted grandfather, yet leaves everything behind to help out. It’s really a gift to work with Massimo,” says Muheim.<h2>Prosthetic technology that improves social interactions</h2>“There’s a very big bias in the field of robotic prosthetic hands towards motor function, like more degrees of freedom or improved controllability, but this is only part of the problem that will, for example, not help in social interactions,” says Muheim. “If you want to build a prosthetic hand that truly replaces your missing limb, you have to be able to feel, to touch and feel warmth. As Rochelle Ackerley from Marseille says, ‘Touch without temperature is like vision without color.’”Muheim investigates questions about sensory feedback in prosthetics, like ways to discriminate what you’re touching, psychological and social aspects of warmth, and exploring what Muheim calls “the whole experience of having a limb.” The researcher, who holds a Master’s in robotics with a minor in neuroprosthetics, got involved in biotechnology one step at a time: “I never thought of myself as a scientist. I’m more of an engineer who fell in love with a project that involves doing scientific research. I’m motivated by solving patients’ problems and making helpful devices.”“My first research experience was for a semester project with Stéphanie P. Lacour, head of the Laboratory for Soft Bioelectronic Interfaces at EPFL. There were so many cool projects, I was immersed in an environment of researchers who love what they do,” says Muheim. He got hooked on developing socially-oriented technology when, for EPFL’s MAKE Assistive Technology Challenge that aims to help someone with a disability, he and team members developed a device to facilitate communication of a 9 year old boy living with a severe motor impairment. “After leaving the device at home with him, his mother called us to say that she heard a computerized voice call ‘Mom’. She told us that it was the first time she had ever heard her son call for her. It’s amazing that you can develop something with your hands that can have a positive impact on someone’s life,” beams Muheim. “On the social aspect of technology, <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/dr_solaiman_shokur_science_will_disappoint_you_until_it_doesn_t" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Solaiman Shokur’s TED talk</a> was an inspiration for me. I knew then that I had to do a project with Solaiman. That’s how I ended up doing my master’s thesis on bionic temperature feedback.”<h2>Community of scientists working together for social biotechnology</h2>Muheim is part of a growing community of researchers and patients involved in projects that marry social considerations with biotechnology. He has worked with as many as thirty patients for his research, including Munzi, most of them from Italy, bringing people of different walks across Europe for a common goal. “We develop ties with these people. They welcome us into their homes, participate in our experiments, provide valuable feedback. These periods are super intense for all of us, but it’s our common passion for the projects that brings us together and creates bonds. It’s motivational to see their level of commitment,” says Muheim.

Jonathan Muheim and Massimo Munzi © TNE/EPFL

The human determinants of research are key for making progress, as championed by amputee Massimo Munzi who is helping improve prosthetics, as well as EPFL's neuroprosthetic researcher Jonathan Muheim.

Amputee and researcher go prosthetic hand in hand towards progress

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MIT researchers have developed a new bionic knee that can help people with above-the-knee amputations walk faster, climb stairs, and avoid obstacles more easily than they could with a traditional prosthesis.Unlike prostheses in which the residual limb sits within a socket, the new system is directly integrated with the user’s muscle and bone tissue. This enables greater stability and gives the user much more control over the movement of the prosthesis.Participants in a small clinical study also reported that the limb felt more like a part of their own body, compared to people who had more traditional above-the-knee amputations.“A prosthesis that's tissue-integrated — anchored to the bone and directly controlled by the nervous system — is not merely a lifeless, separate device, but rather a system that is carefully integrated into human physiology, offering a greater level of prosthetic embodiment. It’s not simply a tool that the human employs, but rather an integral part of self,” says Hugh Herr,&nbsp;a professor of media arts and sciences, co-director of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics at MIT, an associate member of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the senior author of the new study.Tony Shu PhD ’24 is the lead author of the <a href="http://doi.org/10.1126/science.adv3223" target="_blank">paper</a>, which appears today in Science.<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZQCVmuirYSI?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https://www.wevolver.com" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable" data-lf-form-tracking-inspected-kn9eq4roawkarlvp="true" data-lf-yt-playback-inspected-kn9eq4roawkarlvp="true" data-lf-vimeo-playback-inspected-kn9eq4roawkarlvp="true">&nbsp;</iframe><h2 id="isPasted">Better control</h2>Over the past several years, Herr’s lab has been working on new prostheses that can extract neural information from muscles left behind after an amputation and use that information to help guide a prosthetic limb.During a traditional amputation, pairs of muscles that take turns stretching and contracting are usually severed, disrupting the normal agonist-antagonist relationship of the muscles. This disruption makes it very difficult for the nervous system to sense the position of a muscle and how fast it’s contracting.Using the new surgical approach developed by Herr and his colleagues, known as agonist-antagonist myoneuronal interface (AMI), muscle pairs are reconnected during surgery so that they still dynamically communicate with each other within the residual limb. This sensory feedback helps the wearer of the prosthesis to decide how to move the limb, and also generates electrical signals that can be used to control the prosthetic limb.In a <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2024/prosthesis-helps-people-with-amputation-walk-naturally-0701">2024 study</a>, the researchers showed that people with amputations below the knee who received the AMI surgery were able to walk faster and navigate around obstacles much more naturally than people with traditional below-the-knee amputations.In the new study, the researchers extended the approach to better serve people with amputations above the knee. They wanted to create a system that could not only read out signals from the muscles using AMI but also be integrated into the bone, offering more stability and better sensory feedback.To achieve that, the researchers developed a procedure to insert a titanium rod&nbsp;into the residual femur bone at the amputation site. This implant allows for better mechanical control and load bearing than a traditional prosthesis. Additionally, the implant contains 16 wires that collect information from electrodes located on the AMI muscles inside the body, which enables more accurate transduction of the signals coming from the muscles.This bone-integrated system, known as e-OPRA,&nbsp;transmits AMI signals to a new robotic controller developed specifically for this study. The controller uses this information to calculate the torque necessary to move the prosthesis the way that the user wants it to move.“All parts work together to better get information into and out of the body and better interface mechanically with the device,” Shu says. “We’re directly loading the skeleton, which is the part of the body that’s supposed to be loaded, as opposed to using sockets, which is uncomfortable and can lead to frequent skin infections.”In this study, two subjects received the combined AMI and e-OPRA system, known as an osseointegrated mechanoneural prosthesis (OMP). These users were compared with eight who had the AMI surgery but not the e-OPRA implant, and seven users who had neither AMI nor e-OPRA. All subjects took a turn at using an experimental powered knee prosthesis developed by the lab.The researchers measured the participants’ ability to perform several types of tasks, including bending the knee to a specified angle, climbing stairs, and stepping over obstacles. In most of these tasks, users with the OMP system performed better than the subjects who had the AMI surgery but not the e-OPRA implant, and much better than users of traditional prostheses.“This paper represents the fulfillment of a vision that the scientific community has had for a long time — the implementation and demonstration of a fully physiologically integrated, volitionally controlled robotic leg,” says Michael Goldfarb, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Intelligent Mechatronics at Vanderbilt University, who was not involved in the research. “This is really difficult work, and the authors deserve tremendous credit for their efforts in realizing such a challenging goal.”<img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wevolver-project-images/froala%2F1752710986929-MIT_Bionic-Knee-02-press.jpg" style="width: 100%px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">A subject with the osseointegrated mechanoneural prosthesis overcomes an obstacle placed in their walking path by volitionally flexing and extending their phantom knee joint. Control signals from their residual knee muscles are used to produce movement of the powered prosthetic knee that mirrors the phantom knee. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers<h2>A sense of embodiment</h2>In addition to testing gait and other movements, the researchers also asked questions designed to evaluate participants’ sense of embodiment — that is, to what extent their prosthetic limb felt like a part of their own body.Questions included whether the patients felt as if they had two legs, if they felt as if the prosthesis was part of their body, and if they felt in control of the prosthesis. Each question was designed to evaluate the participants’ feelings of agency, ownership of device, and body representation.The researchers found that as the study went on, the two participants with the OMP showed much greater increases in their feelings of agency and ownership than the other subjects.“Another reason this paper is significant is that it looks into these embodiment questions and it shows large improvements in that sensation of embodiment,” Herr says. “No matter how sophisticated you make the AI systems of a robotic prosthesis, it’s still going to feel like a tool to the user, like an external device. But with this tissue-integrated approach, when you ask the human user what is their body, the more it’s integrated, the more they’re going to say the prosthesis is actually part of self.”The AMI procedure is now done routinely on patients with below-the-knee amputations at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Herr expects it will soon become the standard for above-the-knee amputations as well. The combined OMP system will need larger clinical trials to receive FDA approval for commercial use, which Herr expects may take about five years.

The new bionic knee can help people with above-the-knee amputations walk faster, climb stairs, and avoid obstacles more easily than they could with a traditional prosthesis. The new system is directly integrated with the user’s muscle and bone tissue (bottom row right). This enables greater stability and gives the user much more control over the movement of the prosthesis. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers; MIT News

In a small clinical study, users of this prosthesis navigated more easily and said the limb felt more like part of their body.

A bionic knee integrated into tissue can restore natural movement

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