• Open Source Low-Cost, Portable and High-Performance Bionic Leg

    A new open-source, artificially intelligent prosthetic leg designed by researchers at the University of Michigan and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is now available to the scientific community. As an open-source project, anyone can contribute to improving the leg’s...

    • Posted 5 years ago
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  • DIY a 3D Printed Prosthetic Nerf Gun

    How can you participate in a Nerf gun fight if you’re missing a hand? The ingenious Hackerloop collective of tinkerers solved that problem by putting together a prosthetic Nerf gun that you can control with your arm muscles. The...

    • Posted 6 years ago
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  • Open Bionics: Creating Prosthetics Inspired by Superheroes

    Open Bionics is a UK-based start-up tech company. Its mission is to create affordable 3D printed prostheses. They are about 30 times cheaper than other prostheses on the market. They operate using sensors attached to the skin...

    • Posted 6 years ago
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  • Go Prosthetic: Affordable 3d Printed Limbs for Amputees

    Peter “Max” Armstrong, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Colorado Boulder, has grown into a highly promising initiative called Go Prosthetics. After years of research, prototypes, and tinkering, Armstrong believes he has developed a low-cost and...

    • Posted 7 years ago
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  • EXIII HACKberry: 3D printable electric prosthetic arm

    The HACKberry is a 3D printable electric prosthetic arm created by exiii Inc a Japanese robotics company based in Tokyo and specialised in bionic arms. The hand works by detecting when nerve and muscle tissue is stimulated...

    • Posted 8 years ago
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  • LIFEHAND 2: an excellent prosthetic project from nationally financed project in Italy

    A truly excellent prosthetic project from nationally financed project in Italy. It’s not clear whether or not this will be open sourced but as it’s financed with public money, for sure it should: LifeHand 2 aims to create a completely...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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