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i-LIMB Hand™: Bionic Hands with Five Motorized Fingers

Filed in archive Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation , Other Biotechnology News by ruth on July 21, 2007

i-LIMB Hand™: Bionic Hands with Five Motorized Fingers
At the 12th congress of the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics in Vancouver, the new high-tech bioniclinks hand with five motorized fingers, invented in Scotland, will be unveiled.

Amputees have been fitted with artificial hands that use a thumb and two fingers to produce a simple claw grip. Now with the invention of i-LIMB Hand™, patients can control the five digits separately using tiny muscle movements picked up by electrodes attached to the forearm.

Those wearing the devices can do pretty much anything they could do before they lost their hands - from typing to peeling a banana to turning a key in a lock to eating with a knife and a fork, designers said. One British man and 13 amputees in the United States have been fitted with the device during trials.


The i-LIMB system was developed by Touch Bionics.

Want to see the i-LIMB Hand™ in action? Click here.

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