Product profile
Ability Hand
Ability Hand is PSYONIC touch-sensing bionic hand for prosthetics and robotics. It combines fast finger movement, impact-resistant compliant fingers and se...
Facts
- Company
- PSYONIC
- Product type
- hand
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- manipulation
- Website
- https://www.psyonic.io/ability-hand
About Ability Hand
Pressure sensors in the fingers measure contact during a grip and convert it into vibration against the user’s residual limb. The compliant fingers are designed to survive blunt impacts that would damage more rigid prosthetic mechanisms, while software provides a library of everyday grip patterns.
PSYONIC also supplies the hand to robotics laboratories through an open API. Researchers can command finger motion, read multiple touch points and use a simulation-ready model in NVIDIA Isaac Lab, linking the same commercially deployed hand to robot-learning, teleoperation and manipulation research as well as human prosthetic use.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Robot hand
Core: Touch sensing
Function: Manipulation
Audience: Healthcare providers
Specifications
- actuation
- Powered finger flexion/extension with electric and manual thumb rotation
- 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
- hand_dof
- 6 powered DoF
- manipulation
- All five fingers flex and extend, and the thumb rotates electrically and manually
- runtime_hours
- Estimated 6 to 8 hour charge life h
- tactile_sensing
- Multi-touch sensing for robotics research use
- weight_g
- 490 g
Operations
- Environment
- prosthetic_use, assistive_manipulation
- Primary user
- prosthesis_users, prosthetists
- Role
- prosthetic_grasping, tactile_feedback
- Interaction model
- emg_control, pressure_feedback
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- ABB Robotics and PSYONIC use Ability Hand data to advance robot dexterity — 2026-06-16
- PSYONIC and NVIDIA announce collaboration at GTC 2026 — 2026-03-16
- Ability Hand comparison paper benchmarks commercial prosthetic grasping performance — 2024-12-01
- PSYONIC and Limbs for Life launch the Ability Fund — 2024-11-23
- PSYONIC closes $3.1M StartEngine equity campaign — 2024-01-31
- PSYONIC releases Ability Hand for research users — 2022-11-02
- PSYONIC launches Ability Hand nationwide — 2021-09-01
- PSYONIC Ability Hand paper studies touch feedback and contact reflexes — 2020-06-29