As we know, pain is vital and a necessary mean of survival, and even when sometimes it's truly annoying and undesirable, this keeps us from hurting ourselves in worst and lethal ways, but how much this feature could be useful for prosthetics users?
Prosthetics have evolved considerably throughout the years with the advances of technology and science, and nowadays, thanks to biohacking and robotics we're witnessing the rising of the medicine's future.
Feeling physical pain is a feature maybe it's considered as a "luxury" that prosthetic users don't have and also seems like a contradiction since the primary aim of a prosthesis is to make amputees' life more comfortable and not the opposite. Researchers are reported to develop a prosthesis that can feel sharp pain so that this automatically drop pointed and dangerous objects and also transfers that information to the wearer who feels it in the form of pain. This innovative advance evidently will lead to the creation of bionic members able to feel and react more accurately and realistically according to the user's sensations, which could mean for them a way to take better care of their prosthesis.
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