Fluidhand: Each finger can be moved separately

Description

It can hold a credit card, use a keyboard with the index finger, and lift a bag weighing up to 20 kg – the world’s first commercially available pros-thetic hand that can move each finger separately and has an astounding range of grip configurations. For the first time worldwide a patient at the Orthopedic University Hospital in Heidelberg has tested both the i-LIMB hand in comparison with another innovative prosthesis, the so called Fluidhand. Eighteen-year-old Sören Wolf, who was born with only one hand, is enthusiastic about its capabilities.

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