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Exo-Glove Shell: A Hybrid Rigid-Soft Wearable Robot for Thumb Opposition with an Under-Actuated Tendon-Driven System.

Soft robotics Aug 13, 2024
Usability and functionality are important when designing hand-wearable robots; however, satisfying both indicators remains a challenging issue, even though researchers have made important progress with state-of-the-art robot components. Although hand...
Robotics Equipment Design Tendons Thumb Humans Wearable Electronic Devices
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Evaluating initial usability of a hand augmentation device across a large and diverse sample.

Science robotics May 29, 2024
The advancement of motor augmentation and the broader domain of human-machine interaction rely on a seamless integration with users' physical and cognitive capabilities. These considerations may markedly fluctuate among individuals on the basis of th...
Robotics Equipment Design Hand Man-Machine Systems Wearable Electronic Devices Child, Preschool Child Thumb Middle Aged Aged Humans Adolescent Adult Aged, 80 and over Female Male Young Adult
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Cooperative Hand Therapy via a Soft, Wearable, and Unilateral Telerobotic System.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering Dec 26, 2022
Functional rehabilitation of the hand is a complex and difficult process involving a large number of degrees of freedom (DOFs). Soft wearable hand-rehabilitation robots have assisted hand movements with a compact structural design, but effective reha...
Humans Wearable Electronic Devices Hand Strength Thumb Robotics Hand Fingers
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Emerging of new bioartificial corticospinal motor synergies using a robotic additional thumb.

Scientific reports Sep 16, 2021
It is likely that when using an artificially augmented hand with six fingers, the natural five plus a robotic one, corticospinal motor synergies controlling grasping actions might be different. However, no direct neurophysiological evidence for this ...
Artificial Limbs Motor Skills Evoked Potentials, Motor Male Magnetic Resonance Imaging Robotics Pyramidal Tracts Motor Cortex Thumb Motor Neurons Female Adult Humans
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Classifying muscle parameters with artificial neural networks and simulated lateral pinch data.

PloS one Sep 2, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Hill-type muscle models are widely employed in simulations of human movement. Yet, the parameters underlying these models are difficult or impossible to measure in vivo. Prior studies demonstrate that Hill-type muscle parameters are encode...
Thumb Muscle, Skeletal Electromyography Tendons Humans Biomechanical Phenomena Hand Strength Neural Networks, Computer Computer Simulation
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Bioinspired High-Degrees of Freedom Soft Robotic Glove for Restoring Versatile and Comfortable Manipulation.

Soft robotics Aug 12, 2021
The human hand is one of the most complex and compact grippers that has arisen as a product of natural genetic engineering; it is highly versatile, as it handles power and precision tasks. Since proper contact points and force directions are required...
Robotics Hand Upper Extremity Thumb Humans Hand Strength
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Myoelectric digit action decoding with multi-output, multi-class classification: an offline analysis.

Scientific reports Oct 9, 2020
The ultimate goal of machine learning-based myoelectric control is simultaneous and independent control of multiple degrees of freedom (DOFs), including wrist and digit artificial joints. For prosthetic finger control, regression-based methods are ty...
Humans Machine Learning Male Electromyography Algorithms Female Wrist Joint Thumb Rotation Fingers Amputees Movement Artificial Limbs Upper Extremity Feasibility Studies
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Reliability of the thumb localizing test and its validity against quantitative measures with a robotic device in patients with hemiparetic stroke.

PloS one Jul 24, 2020
OBJECTIVES: To examine the inter-rater reliability of the thumb localizing test (TLT) and its validity against quantitative measures of proprioception.
Stroke Humans Adult Stroke Rehabilitation Aged Female Middle Aged Proprioception Male Thumb Young Adult Adolescent Robotics
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A practical 3D-printed soft robotic prosthetic hand with multi-articulating capabilities.

PloS one May 14, 2020
Soft robotic hands with monolithic structure have shown great potential to be used as prostheses due to their advantages to yield light weight and compact designs as well as its ease of manufacture. However, existing soft prosthetic hands design were...
Torsion, Mechanical Joints Movement Thumb Amputees Artificial Limbs Fingers Male Printing, Three-Dimensional Hand Strength Robotics Humans Biomechanical Phenomena
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An overview of robotic/mechanical devices for post-stroke thumb rehabilitation.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology Jan 15, 2018
PURPOSE: This article aims to clarify the current state-of-the-art of robotic/mechanical devices for post-stroke thumb rehabilitation as well as the anatomical characteristics and motions of the thumb that are crucial for the development of any devic...
Thumb Robotics Humans Equipment Design Biomechanical Phenomena Stroke Rehabilitation Recovery of Function
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