3D Printed Prosthetic Hand that Can Learn Users' Movements

A group of students at the University of Illinois has come up with a 3D Printed prosthetic hand that can learn a user's movement. It is capable of self programming itself and then taking on different types of movements and grips. It can use a 3 finger grip, a closed hand, fine pinch and more. It takes only a couple minutes to program it to an individual, and the creators hope to bring these to developing nations. Costing less than $280 to create, provides for potential in countries where $40,000 myoelectric hands are simply not feasible. The team is still developing the technology and hope to include feedback sensors and more. Read and see more at: http://3dprint.com/22126/learnable-3d-printed-hand/

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Very cool!!!! I wonder if they are going to publish the electrical and programs for it? This would be a great thing to have in the Open Source Community because they would be able to make progress very fast with it.

Yeah, please let us know in eNABLE if they release there research.