Chafing, blisters and sores are common problems for people fitted with an artificial limb.
The artificial limb's fixed, rigid shape can't adapt to changes in a person's body, ultimately causing it to rub against a person's residual limb.
"Ultimately, no matter how sophisticated the limb itself is, if it cannot connect closely and comfortably with the human body, it becomes unwearable," researcher Firat Guder, a reader in intelligent interfaces in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, said in a news release.
But a new advance aims to solve this 200-year-old problem by revolutionizing the fit of prosthetic limbs, according to a recent report in the journal Nature Communications.
