The "Risk-Film" studio is finalizing work on the feature-length documentary "Sensory Contact" — about modern bionic hand prostheses. Its premiere is scheduled for February 8, 2025, on Russian Science Day. This week, the film crew presented the first trailer of the film. The film features neurophysiologist Professor Mikhail Lebedev, engineer and founder of the "MaxBionic" company, Timur Saifutdinov, neurosurgeon Artur Biktimirov, neurobiologist Olevia Cyber, neurophysiologist Gurgen Sogayan, as well as Alexey Trantsev, Alexey Moutin, and Yulia Otroshchenko. Upper limb prostheses — “gadgets,” as the film’s protagonists call them — help people without hands, but they cannot completely replace them. Prostheses lack sensations and cannot feel. However, scientists are developing “sensory” technology. Will science be able to restore the ability to feel with their hands for amputees? Work on the film began in 2021. At the center of the story is a project by scientists from Skoltech and the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences aimed at making hand prostheses capable of sensing. The scientific part of the project is led by neurophysiologist Mikhail Lebedev — a former student of Viktor Gurfinkel, who, at the end of the 1960s, invented the world’s first bionic prosthesis, for which his entire team received the USSR State Prize. Today, scientists are conducting experiments together with leading prosthetics companies — “Motorika” and “MaxBionic.”