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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

Cars That Think

On a visit to Pakistan with his parents, 7-year-old Aadeel Akhtar met a girl his age who was missing her right leg. The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. The Ability Hand contains six motors housed in a carbon fiber casing.

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Lancet Series: Improving road safety measures could save half a million lives every year worldwide

Green Car Congress

—co-author Dr Junaid Razzak from Weill Cornell Medical Centre, USA and Aga Khan University College of Medicine, Pakistan. These injuries include pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, motor vehicles, and other transport-related incidents.

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