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A wearable robot that provides active grasping assitance 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.

Research Area:

Assistive Robotics

Technical Contribution:

Mechanical Design, Firmware Implementation, Experiment Design

Years:

2022 – 2023

Collaborators:

Alexandra Deli-Ivanov, Ava Chen, Lauren Winterbottom, Dawn M. Nilsen, Joel Stein, and Matei Ciocarlie