PSYONIC Ability Hand for Research

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Overview

The Ability Hand was designed as a prosthesis for people with upper-limb difference and was opened to robotics research users in November 2022. All five fingers flex and extend and the thumb rotates electrically and manually, driven by six brushless DC motors; integrated sensors detect pressure at the fingers, and the hand weighs 490 grams — less than the average adult human hand, per PSYONIC.

For research use, the hand's API provides torque, velocity, and position control of the six motors and streams six encoder values and 30 touch sensor values over Bluetooth, USB, I2C, UART, or RS485. PSYONIC cites research users including Meta, NASA, Apptronik, and Sanctuary AI. No price is published; purchasing runs through PSYONIC's contact/quote channels.

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