The device achieved the best performance compared with the alternatives, successfully handling objects with 99.69% accuracy and adjusting its grip as needed to prevent mishaps during the experiments.
Prosthetic hand based on human hand’s physical and sensing capabilities
“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 natural prosthetic that functions and feels like a lost limb,” said Sriramana Sankar, a Johns Hopkins PhD student in biomedical engineering who led the work.
“We want to give people with upper-limb loss the ability to safely and freely intmultifinger system with rubberlike polymerseract with their environment, to feel and hold their loved ones without concern of hurting them.”