i-Limb - first bionic fingers unveiled

An android hand has now not only in a sci-fi movie, because it’s now real. Touch Bionics, a bionic prosthetics company has made a bionic hand named i-Limb for deprived of the use of their hands or arms. With a ProDigits technology developed by this company, it is possible now to move the hands until the fingers.

The technology based on traditional myoelectric era, which reacts to muscle signals from the residual hand, or pressure from the remnant finger for its input, this invention can even be tweaked by doctors (using Bluetooth) to adjust the finer motor functions on a per patient basis.

However, this technology is quite expensive for people who have lost their arms because of an accident or war which is costing up to £40,000 ($65,000). This expensive cost is based on a custom of every person arms and just built with a health insurance policy in each country of users. Let's see the demo video below:

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