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Welcome to the science podcast for October 10th, 2014.

I'm Sarah Cresby.

In this week's show, we have David Schultz up first with some online news stories,

and then we hear from news writer Dennismile about the social life of robots.

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Now we have David Schultz, an intern for our daily news site. He's here to talk about some recent online stories. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up, we have a story on new innovations

and prosthetics. Amputees have been able to control movement of prosthetic limbs before now, but there have

been problems with this technology. For example, it crushes things. People don't have the ability to

judge how strong their prosthetic is.

What's behind some of these issues, David?

Well, as you mentioned, there's a number of problems in prosthetic technology.

One with, as you said, how tightly you're grasping something.

There's really no feedback. There's no sense of touch.

And in this paper, researchers describe an expanded ability to

feel with a prosthetic hand. What do they mean by feel in this context? Well, they've equipped the

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