Driven by this vision, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Stieglitz of the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and an international research group recently achieved a breakthrough that has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life of people with disabilities in the near future.

In several EU-funded projects, sentient prostheses were developed that give the user the feeling of being part of his or her own body. Special implantable electrodes make it possible to feed electrical impulses from hand prostheses directly into patients' nerve tracts. This enables patients to feel objects, open the prosthesis accordingly and adjust the grip force - no additional visual stimulus is required.

For the production of the various components for this fascinating technology, we were allowed to install an ISO Class 8 clean room at the IMBIT of the University of Freiburg. With the help of a laminar flow workbench, the cleanliness class is increased up to ISO 5. Even though it will probably still take a while before it is ready for the market: The fact that we can contribute to progress in medical development in this way with our cleanrooms already makes us proud.

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