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2. Prosthesis - Wikipedia

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   Upper-extremity prostheses are used at varying levels of amputation: forequarter, shoulder disarticulation, transhumeral prosthesis, elbow disarticulation, transradial prosthesis, wrist disarticulation, full hand, partial hand, finger, partial finger. A transradial prosthesis is an artificial limb that replaces an arm missing below the elbow.

3. I-LIMB Hand - Wikipedia

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   The i-LIMB Hand is the brand name of world's first commercially available bionic hand invented by David Gow and his team at the Bioengineering Centre of the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital in Edinburgh, and manufactured by Touch Bionics. The articulating prosthetic hand has individually powered digits and thumb and has a choice of grips. The i ...

4. E-NABLE - Wikipedia

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   After posting a video of the hand on YouTube, he was contacted by South African carpenter Richard Van As who had lost his fingers in a woodworking accident. Owen and Van As worked on prototypes of a prosthetic hand, before Owen decided to incorporate 3D printing into the design process.

5. Iron hand (prosthesis) - Wikipedia

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   These designs combined cosmetic and functional properties. The most famous example of an iron hand was made around the year 1530, being the second prosthetic hand made for the German knight Götz von Berlichingen. [1] Most iron hands are based on the same constructive principles, although there are considerable differences in complexity.

6. Wearable that detects hand gestures could one day control ...

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   Prosthetics are one important application of this technology, but besides that, it also offers a very intuitive way of communicating with computers. Reading hand gestures is one way of improving ...

7. Michelangelo Hand - Wikipedia

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   It is the first prosthesis to feature an electronically actuated thumb which mimics natural human hand movements. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Michelangelo Hand can be used for a variety of delicate everyday tasks, was first fitted to an Austrian elective-amputee in July 2010 [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and has been in use by military and civilian amputees in the ...