Bionic Glove may provide quadriplegics with greater hand function

Puya Abolfathi wearing the Exoflex.

A new bionic glove being developed in Australia could see individuals with paralysis of hands achieve greater autonomy. The seeds of the KinoGlove project were sown 17 years ago when biomedical engineer Puya Abolfathi intended to create a rehabilitation glove — a soft glove that people with spinal cord injuries could wear. He had envisioned that it would have artificial muscles within the glove, enabling users to move their fingers.

While the hand therapy tool was expected to hit the market in mid-2017, ultimately it wasn’t to be. But the story didn’t end there. You can follow the rest of this story HERE.