Making coffee, doing the laundry, tying shoes - people who have lost an arm and are dependent on a prosthesis face obstacles every day. In the future, intelligent prostheses will help people with handicaps to move in accustomed ways again. Scientists from Leibniz University in Hanover are doing research to pave the way for equipping technical aids with a sensitivity otherwise only known from people. For example, if a prosthesis recognizes an activity not known to it, it automatically searches in the Cloud for a similar pattern and adapts it. An app stores all of the movements and enables the prostheses of all users to learn from one another.