Austrian men become first in the world to use ground-breaking bionic hands

A bionic hand, a groundbreaking operation and the power of thought. Three Austrian men have made medical history. They have been given robotic hands they control with their minds. The innovative surgery has been detailed online in the medical journal “The Lancet“: Nerves and muscles were transplanted from their legs to their arms, and the men were then trained how to use their brains to send signals through the muscles and nerves to their new hands.