UK Students Design and Build Inexpensive 3D Printed Robotic Prosthetic Hand

UK Students Design and Build Inexpensive 3D Printed Robotic Prosthetic Hand

“According to the National Health Service (NHS), about 6,000 major limb amputations are carried out in the UK each year. Functional prosthetics can help, but they tend to be costly, and are sometimes only plastic-molded limbs with hooks, which isn’t much help when you’re trying to grip something and pick it up. But advanced technology, such as 3D printing and robotics, can be used to make fully-functioning prosthetics at a more affordable cost, which is what students at the University of Manchester have been working on.

For his final year Mechanical Engineering Master’s project, student Alex Agboola-Dobson and his team – which consists of lead electrical engineer Sebastian Preston-Jensen, lead software engineer Panagiotis Papathanasiou, and mechanical and software engineers Maximillian Rimmer and Shao Hian Liew – developed, designed, and built an affordable, 3D printed robotic prosthetic hand…”

https://3dprint.com/207889/3d-print-robotic-prosthetic-hand/

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