Mar 5, 2025 · The system's hybrid design is a first for robotic hands, which have typically been too rigid or too soft to replicate a human's touch when handling objects of varying textures and materials. ... "The goal from the beginning has been to create a prosthetic hand that we model based on the human hand's physical and sensing capabilities—a more ...

Mar 5, 2025 · Attempts to replicate the human hand have fallen short of a true biomimetic hybrid robotic hand with tactile sensing. We introduce a natural prosthetic hand composed of soft robotic joints and a rigid endoskeleton with three independent neuromorphic tactile sensing layers inspired by human physiology.

Mar 6, 2025 · A new prosthetic hand carefully conforms and adjusts its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds. ... The system’s hybrid design is a first for robotic hands, ...

Aug 16, 2021 · Professor Xuanhe Zhao and his colleagues have developed a new soft robotic prosthetic hand that offers the wearer more tactile control. “You can use it to grab something as thin and fragile as a potato chip, or grasp another hand in a firm-but-safe handshake,” writes Mark Wilson for Fast Company .

Jan 22, 2025 · In this work, we report a lightweight, biomimetic prosthetic hand employing 19 pairs of highly integrated SMA actuators, enabling precise control of five fingers and the wrist, and achieving a...

Mar 6, 2025 · Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds.

Mar 25, 2025 · Steven Reimer M.S. ’24 stepped back from the table after placing the final sensor on the patient’s arm. Two years of hard work had led to this moment. He had traveled 8,000 miles to Jaipur, India to perform the final test of the prosthetic hand he developed as a graduate student in the Robotic Systems Lab at Santa Clara University.

Mar 6, 2025 · A new prosthetic hand combines a rigid internal skeleton with soft, flexible joints, mimicking the structure of a real human hand for both strength and delicate touch. A multilayered sensor system in the fingertips enables the prosthetic to distinguish textures and objects with 98.38% accuracy, significantly outperforming traditional prosthetics.

Jan 15, 2025 · In this study, we introduce a control approach that combines robotic design based on postural synergies and neural decoding of synergistic behavior of spinal motoneurons. We developed a soft prosthetic hand with two degrees of actuation that realizes postures in a two-dimensional linear manifold generated by two postural synergies.

Jan 15, 2025 · FAU researchers developed a soft robotic armband that enhances prosthetic hand control with haptic feedback, enabling multitasking.