Name: Prosthetic-Hands
Owner: Futurice
Description: Affordable (< 200$), light-weight (< 300 gr), anthropomorphic prosthetic hands, using a novel selectively-lockable differential mechanism
Forked from: OpenBionics/Prosthetic-Hands
Created: 2017-01-18 07:20:45.0
Updated: 2017-01-18 07:32:09.0
Pushed: 2016-11-25 17:27:43.0
Homepage: http://www.openbionics.org/
Size: 192093
Language: Eagle
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?# OpenBionics - Prosthetic Hands
Nowadays most prosthetic hands cost dozens of thousands of USD. The OpenBionics initiative (www.openbionics.org) presents a new open-source design for highly functional prosthetic hands. The proposed hands cost less than 200$, weigh less than 300 gr and can be easily fabricated with off-the-shelf materials and rapid prototyping techniques (3D Printing).
A novel differential mechanism (based on the whiffletree) allows the user to block the motion of each finger independently and facilitates the execution of 144 different grasps with only 1 actuator. The design is based on parametric models of hand anthropometry studies, so it can easily be personalized to specific patients.