MyHand-SCI

A wearable robot that provides active grasping assistance for individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI).

Description:

For the MyHand-SCI we adopted a philosophy of augmenting, rather than overshadowing, an individual’s residual motor skills. The MyHand-SCI aims to leverage the tenodesis grasp, a compensatory grasping pattern utilized by individuals with C5–C6 injuries, as a user control modality.

We believe this can make the device more intuitive for this population, give the user more agency and direct feedback, and thus encourage user adoption.