Topic: Touch Bionics Inc.

Ripley`s Does Technology

Baseline - 487 days ago
German scientists created a steel version of Velcro that is said to be strong enough to support a building. Ryohei Kanzaki of Tokyo University is working on insect-machine hybrids; applications could include sniffing out toxic gas for the SWAT team. "Professor Josh ...

BeBionic hand easy on eggs, tough on Coke cans

CNET - 722 days ago
British prosthesis maker RSLSteeper is readying a myoelectric bionic hand that will let users perform detailed movements such as picking up wooden tiles in the game Jenga or grasping objects with a " Little information is available, but RSLSteeper says the BeBionic hand ...

a good arm

CNET - 1040 days ago
Touch Bionics announced Tuesday what it calls the world's first commercially available bionic hand, a prosthetic hand that moves more naturally than traditional prostheses and can hold awkward or delicate objects. Here, she cuts an apple with the help of her ...

Bionic Hand Makes Time's Top 50 Innovations

Tom's Hardware - 1196 days ago
After a long twenty-year developmental period, Touch Bionics has finally produced a mechanical hand with five individually working ProDigits, or fingers (meaning each digit has its own motor). However with Touch Bionics' i-LIMB hand, patients can now experience a precision grip that ...

Scotland's i-LIMB wins MacRobert

Suite 101 - 1348 days ago
Developed over 45 years, i-LIMB Touch Bionics has won the UK Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert award, announced by the learning engineering society at this week's award dinner ceremony in London.. The MacRobert winner, i-LIMB, is produced in Mid Calder Livingston ...