Mary Nguyen

Tact: Design and performance of an open-source, affordable, myoelectric prosthetic hand

This paper presents the Tact hand—an anthropomorphic, open-source, myoelectric prosthetic hand that was designed for use by people with transradial amputations in developing countries. This hand matches or exceeds the performance of other state-of-the-art myoelectric prosthetic hands, but costs two…