Improvements

Make mind-controlled prosthetics have regenerative abilities: 2 individual chemicals will be added into the material and when there is a crack or cut, the chemicals will flow out, interact, and eventually ‘seal’ the crack, therefore self-regenerative (Rincon, 2012). This could be added onto mind-controlled prosthetics to make it even more sustainable since these limbs will be exposed to hazards from our everyday life, and sending it to

maintenance could bring about great inconvenience.

Make mind-controlled prosthetics have a sense of touch: The sense of touch essentially allows us to regulate the amount of force that we exert on objects. Without the ability to sense touch, the daily activities such as holding a phone, cup of water or even typing on a keyboard a real struggle. Mind-controlled prosthetics having the sense of touch is no longer science fiction but a soon becoming a reality (Rozenfield, 2013). They were able to experiment with a prosthetic made with built-in sensors designed by the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, in Baltimore. Hence, we are able to improve these prosthetics by allowing the equippers to ‘feel’ their objects, they are able to regulate the amount of force exerted which will prevent them from involuntarily crushing some objects.

Self-healing Material

Reproduced from BBC News.