PSYONIC Ability Hand

A tactile bionic prosthetic hand from US company PSYONIC, also commonly used as a robotics dexterous hand.

The Ability Hand is a bionic hand made by PSYONIC, a company headquartered in San Diego and founded by Aadeel Akhtar. It was designed first as a prosthesis for upper-limb amputees, and the company describes it as the first bionic hand with tactile feedback: pressure sensors in the fingertips relay the sensation of touch back to the user's residual limb through vibration when grasping something. All five fingers can flex and extend, the thumb can rotate electrically, giving 6 actuated degrees of freedom in total, and it weighs about 490 grams with an impact-resistant shell. Because it's light, fast, durable, and offers interfaces aimed at researchers, a number of robotics teams mount it on robot arms or humanoid robots and use it as a dexterous hand for dexterous-manipulation and teleoperation research.

ExampleResearchers mount the Ability Hand at the end of a robot arm and use a data glove to teleoperate it, collecting grasping demonstrations to train an imitation-learning policy.

Also called

Ability Hand

Related

Dexterous Hand · Tactile Sensor · Dexterous Manipulation · Teleoperation · Degrees of Freedom (DoF) · Inspire RH56 Dexterous Hand

Sources

Ability Hand - PSYONIC
How a Loyola alum built the world's first touch-sensing bionic hand

As of

2026-09