September, 2011:

i-limb digits is another prosthesis product from Touch Bionics with fully electronic customized feature. This prosthesis product from Touch Bionics is a perfect tool for people with missing fingers or missing their partial hands. People that lost one to five of their fingers could use i-limb digits for it replacement. This individual powered prosthetic moves individually and works incredibly in combination with any remaining fingers. This way user could gain their functional capabilities again. i-limb digits is made differently where i-limb digits tries to find solution for any missing digits because Touch Bionics believe that every people with missing digits is unique. Perhaps this is the reasonable solution that takes different ways in making prosthetic digits for different people. Many different ways used in making the prosthesis but the goal is still the same where the solution is trying to help people increases their performance and independence.

Here is one of the prosthetic products from Touch Bionics, i-limb ultra. I-limb ultra is a special designed prosthetic hand for those who want something more natural with their prosthesis. I-limb ultra works and looks naturally than any powered prosthetic hand in market. This high-tech prosthesis has independent natural joints in each finger. These natural joints allow i-limb ultra to greatly familiarize itself with the shape of object that is grasped by user. Moreover, i-limb ultra becomes more versatile by providing user with ability of customable prosthesis for daily activities. To support this versatile feature Touch Bionics uses unique biosim software in this hand. Many automated selections are available within i-limb ultra. For example user could choose precision pinch mode to grip small object like dice (see the image bellow). Another mode that user could choose is automated grips and gestures.

Bionic i-LIMB Hand is one of the bionic hands that Touch Bionics designed. This prosthetic device is one of two bionic devices that now available in market. This bionic hand becomes the world’s first fully articulate and commercial bionic hand. Bionic i-LIMB Hand acts like a real human hand with five individual powered digits. Touch Bionics claimed that this bionic hand represented a generational advance in bionics and patient care. Advanced of technology was applied on this high-tech prosthetic device. High quality mechanical techniques and high-strength plastics are used on Bionic i-LIMB Hand to create a strong durable lightweight modern prosthetic device.

Altair is a robot that developed by scientists at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. His name stands for Aberystwyth Lighter Than Air Intelligent Robot. This Welsh Mars Flying Robot Balloon is a platform robotic for a new kind of probe for Mars. Welsh Mars Flying Robot Balloon Altair shaped like a mini gondola. Scientists put electric motors, a microprocessor and navigation system inside the gondola. Scientists are successfully making this robot balloon works, and now they are designing bigger and more sophisticate version. Welsh Mars Flying Robot Balloon designed to undergo mission with minimum human intervention. Moreover this robot balloon designed to provide platform for cameras and atmospheric sensors.

Spring Turkey is a bipedal walking robot that developed for experimental purpose. This robot is a platform for implementing. The development of Spring Turkey will be used on another robot or another project robot. For examples are implementations of force control actuation techniques, motion description and control techniques, and various walking algorithms. This experimental robot started by two engineers named Peter Dilworth and Jerry Pratt. Started in 1994 this robot built with an actuated hip and knee on each leg. Bipedal Spring Turkey robot is a two dimensional robot because of its limitation in moving. Bipedal Spring Turkey robot’ body divided into two parts, upper and lower body.

First full-sized humanoid robot in United States is ATOM-7xp. This robot was made by Dan Mathias, an engineer, for almost eight years. This robot introduced to public for the first time in 2010 at the 25th anniversary of FutureBots. Mathias uses VIA Nano, Intel ATOM 330 processors and Microsoft 7-XP and C++ to run ATOM. ATOM itself stands for Advanced Technology for Optimizing Motion. This robot was developed under the FutureBots, robotics component suppliers, support. To optimize its motions, humanoid robot ATOM-7xp given 49 degrees of freedom which made of aluminum, titanium, and carbon fiber which made by Mathias in FutureBots, completely handmade and built in USA.

Dragon Runner is a small unmanned ground vehicle or SUGV that is able to let its users to see around small and tied places in urban environment. The small unmanned ground vehicle Dragon Runner was developed by engineers in QinetiQ. Originally this SUGV developed by the U.S. Marine Corps while QinetiQ only takes part in improving its ability and equipments. The basic model of this robot weights only 14lbs with measurement of 12.2 x 16.6 x 6 inches. The development of small unmanned ground vehicle Dragon Runner in QinetiQ did not change any original design significantly but added combination of treads on it.