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The hand features an innovative mechanism that allows two degrees of freedom in the thumb (adduction/abduction and flexion/extension) to be independently controlled by a single actuator, achieving ...

An ultra-light robotic prosthetic hand has been developed that enables both precision fingertip control and shape-adaptive gripping through simple motion commands. The hand features an innovative ...

The anatomy of the human hand is characterized by intrinsic coupling mechanisms at the level of the tendons and bone structure. The intra-finger constraints, in particular, represent coupled movements ...

Despite significant design improvements in recent years, many available soft actuators have drawbacks in achieving bidirectional motion typical of finger joints—such soft actuators facilitate finger ...

During the extension phase, the finger position was identical to that of the extensor strength test. Participants completed a series of 12 repetitions of an 8-s flexion phase, followed by a 5-s ...

Previous work has largely focused on finger flexion, mainly involving one- or two-dimension finger flexion-extension at the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints. ... To make data consistent and easy to ...

Moreover, studies that assessed naturalistic movements of the hand in healthy people have also shown that finger coactivation patterns can vary greatly depending on the tasks and fingers involved ...

The intra-finger constraints, in particular, represent coupled movements of the joints of the same finger. Previous studies verified the existence of intra-finger couplings for circular and prismatic ...

Finger flexion can cause changes in the lengths of the ligaments, which are considered to be stabilizers of the finger joints. 5 5 Chotigavanichaya C, Limthongthang R, Pimonsiripol T, Harnroongroj T, ...