Touch Bionics, major US clinics fitting patients with breakthrough new prosthesis - Veterans of Iraq conflict among first to receive i-LIMB Hand.
EDINBURGH, U.K. – July 17, 2007 – Touch Bionics, developer of the world’s first commercially available bionic hand, today announced that its i-LIMB Hand and ProDigits partial hand prostheses are now generally available and have been successfully fitted to a significant number of patients across the United States and in Europe.
Touch Bionics’ i-LIMB Hand looks and acts like a real human hand and is the world’s first widely available prosthetic device with five individually powered digits. In another industry first, Touch Bionics’ ProDigits product is adapted for patients who have a partial hand, due either to congenitally missing fingers or fingers lost through an accident. Partial hand is an area of prosthetics that has been without suitable powered products in the past.
The i-LIMB Hand and ProDigits will be formally unveiled later this month at the 12th World Congress of the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics in Vancouver, Canada. ButHow the human brain makes certain decisions are to be adapted to build a new robot which will think for itself.
Computer scientists in the US have developed a robot that could help blind people to shop or find their way around large buildings.
What if we build an exoskeleton for folks with atrophy of limbs? Thus Global Robotics was born on 09/07/07.
A ROBOT suit has been developed that could help older people or those with disabilities to walk or lift heavy objects.
A ROBOT suit has been developed that could help older people or those with disabilities to walk or lift heavy objects.
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