At Contactile, we are now giving prosthetic hands a human sense of touch!
We’ve developed our first prosthetic finger pad, with our commercial partner TASKA Prosthetics, using Contactile’s revolutionary optical force and displacement sensing technology.
This first prototype contains a single Contactile sensing element, and so can sense both force and displacement in three spatial dimensions – this will enable grip forces to be varied in proportion to the weight of the object being gripped.
In this demo video, we showcase the precision and responsiveness of the finger pad. The next iteration of this product will contain multiple sensing elements to enable three-dimensional torque sensing.
We’re very excited to start this journey towards improving the lives of myoelectric prosthetics users.
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