Prosthetic hand allows boy to change grip with gestures
A nine-year-old boy, born with his right arm missing from the elbow, has become the first child in the UK to be fitted with a bionic hand. The i-limb quantum, developed by Touch Bionics, allows Josh Cathcart to do the things that many of us take for granted, such as eat with a knife and fork.
The bionic hand, which is configurable via a mobile app, is controlled by the user’s muscle signals. To change grip, the user simply has to move the hand in one of four directions: forwards, backwards or side-to-side. This is enabled by Touch Bionics' i-mo technology. The i-limb quantum is the first prosthetic hand that allows users to change grip in such a way.
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