Small DC Motors in Medical Prosthetics Application: LifeHand 2

Grasping with suitable pressure, without damaging or dropping objects, touching and feeling the shape and texture of something: healthy people do this hundreds of times each day without having to consider it. Artificially reproducing this sequence mounts to a real challenge, which a team of researchers have now successfully mastered for the first time with the LifeHand 2 project - supported by micromotors from FAULHABER.

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