Ability Hand Context

Market context

Ability Hand is PSYONIC's multi-articulating robotic hand product used in both prosthetics and robotics workflows.

  • Target environment: Research labs, prosthetics clinics and robotics development environments.
  • Workflow context: Dexterous grasping, tactile sensing, manipulation research and prosthetic use in clinical and robotics settings.
  • Customer context: Robotics researchers, prosthetics practitioners and manipulation R&D teams.
  • Deployment model: Commercial product sold as a robotic end-effector and prosthetic device.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercially available product with adoption across both robotics and prosthetics domains.
  • Adoption constraints: End-effector level product — requires integration into a complete robotic system for task-level use.
  • Market position: A reference tactile dexterous hand bridging prosthetics and robot manipulation. Sits alongside Shadow Robot's DEX-EE in the dexterous manipulation research space.
  • Adjacent products: DEX-EE Hand, Shadow Hand, tactile robotic hands

Specifications

  • Ip Rating: IP64
  • Runtime: Estimated 6-8 h per charge in prosthetic use
  • Features: hand dof: 6 powered DoF
  • actuation and motion control: Powered finger flexion/extension with electric and manual thumb rotation
  • Manipulation: All five fingers flex and extend, and the thumb rotates electrically and manually
  • Tactile Sensing: Multi-touch sensing for robotics research use
  • Charging: USB-C charging in about one hour
  • Closing Speed: Closes in 0.2 seconds
  • Durability: Water resistant; each finger can handle blunt force impact without breaking
  • Weight: 490 g

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