i-LIMB, the world’s first commercial available bionic hand, has bagged the 2008 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert award. It is the highest award given for the noticeable achievement in field of technology. Scottish company Touch Bionics has developed this prosthetic device after the decades of intense research. The bionic hand works like a real human hand enabling amputees to do all kinds of work.
Dr Geoff Robinson, chairman of the MacRobert Award Judging Panel was quoted saying,
Having tried it myself, I can vouch for the fact that it really does work in the way portrayed, even if one is fortunate enough to still have one’s own real hand alongside.
Based on cutting-edge technology, i-LIMB has five individually powered digits or fingers. Each finger can function independently without depending upon others. More than 200 patients have been fitted with the prosthesis device after its launch in July last year. The US soldiers, who lost their limbs in Iraq war, have also been also fitted with i-LIMB.
Source: BBC
