There has been a big climb in representations depicting the way prosthetics have changed over time. It’s true, not all needy get prosthetic limbs, but for the fortunate ones (not so fortunate to have a need of them in the first place), engineers have developed prosthetic hands that can feel and be controlled by the thought like the real hands. Similarly a German company HandProthese has silently specialized in the development of prosthetic hands with ultra realistic fluid motion, i.e. prosthetics capable of carrying out at least five most important everyday hand movements.
The comfortable and indistinguishable from real artificial hands from handprothese attach to the human body with their arm muscles. Stuffed in with sensors to understand and implement human muscle language, these prosthetic hands move according to the information emitted by the contraction of the user’s arm muscle. The movement of the artificial hands is made real-life by the flexible fluid actuators, which also makes these prosthetics lightweight and pretty inexpensive.
Via: DesignBoom
