Wrist Powered Hand Designs
Kinetic Hand
- Wrist powered
- Grippy silicone finger grips for better grip
- Highly customizable
Raptor Reloaded
- An older model with good functionality, predecessor of Phoenix
- Wrist powered
Osprey Hand
- An older model, good functionality (similar to Phoenix)
- Wrist powered
Promimetic Hand
- A ‘remix’ of the flexy hand
- Supposedly has better grip strength
- Still somewhat experimental in design
- Wrist powered
Flexy – Hand 2
- Printed with flexible filament hinges
- Looks the most realistic (can do skin tone such as brown, tan, etc.)
- Not as easy to use as the phoenix – not as good grip strength
- Wrist powered
Arm Powered Hand Designs
ArmPO V2
- connects to arm above the elbow
- grip comes from bending the elbow
- still in the testing process
Shoulder Powered Hand Designs
XO Shoulder by Nate Munro
- Very experimental design
- For recipients without an elbow joint
- Attaches to the body with straps, to create a harness
- Then attaches to a terminal device such as the Kwawu hand
Other Designs
Gripper Thumb
- Passive, but great grip strength
- Must be attached to custom socket
Frog Hand
- For people who have a hand, but can’t move it
- Stroke victims, hemispherectomy patients