Category: Wits

Project Wits

Grip And Feel

Grip and feel to a helping hand Wits University’s engineering students have developed a prosthetic hand prototype that will not only allow users to discern changing temperatures and grab objects,...
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Interpreting Brainwaves

Biomedical Engineering students from Wits are researching how Brainwaves can be used to control a Robotic prosthetic hand. Such a brain computer interface (BCI) will enable amputees and people with motor...
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Curios.ty Research

Irfaan Mohamed and a team of phenomenal final year Biomedical Medical students from the University Of  Witwatersrand are researching  how Brain waves can be used to control a Robotic Prosthetic...
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An Affordable Hand

A team of electrical engineering students at South Africa’s University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, have been working on a prosthetic hand, which when perfected is expected to be affordable while...