As a teenage hobbyist building robots at home in Bristol, Joel Gibbard had a leftfield thought when pondering his next project. How would he continue to make models if he lost a hand?
“The critical thing to me in continuing to play with robotics and tinker with making things was to use my hands. So I thought it would make sense to make a robotic hand so that in the event I ever lost one, I would continue to use that,” he said.
Image: Joel Gibbard with his invention, which he says he can produce for around £2,000, compared with the £20,000 to £50,000 currently charged for similar ‘off the shelf’ products. Photograph: Open Bionics/Open Bionics
