Open-source robotic and bionic devices
News & milestones

News

A running log of OpenBionics releases, awards, conference appearances, and project milestones.

  1. 2019-09-30
    Published a new design of a body-powered, soft, exoskeleton glove.
  2. 2019-09-16
    Partnered with the New Dexterity research group at the University of Auckland to deliver a new class of affordable, light-weight, robust prosthetic and assistive devices.
  3. 2015-11-14
    OpenBionics wins the 2nd prize of the 2015 Hackaday Prize.
  4. 2015-10-05
    OpenBionics is among the finalists of the 2015 Hackaday Prize.
  5. 2015-09-03
    OpenBionics wins 1st prize of the 2015 Robotdalen Innovation Award.
  6. 2015-08
    OpenBionics is among the semifinalists of the 2015 Hackaday Prize.
  7. 2015-06-29
    IROS 2015 paper on affordable, anthropomorphic prosthetic hands accepted for publication.
  8. 2015-06
    One of the three winners of the 2015 Robotdalen Innovation Award.
  9. 2015-03-13
    Hackaday.io page created.
  10. 2015-03-04
    IROS 2015 paper on affordable, anthropomorphic prosthetic hands submitted.
  11. 2015-03-03
    Published a new design for affordable, anthropomorphic prosthetic hands based on a selectively lockable differential mechanism.
  12. 2015-01
    Published a complete tutorial for the replication of our hands.
  13. 2014-11-28
    The OpenBionics initiative gets a new website.
  14. 2014-09-14
    Attended IROS 2014 (Chicago) to present a paper on open-source, modular, underactuated, compliant robot hands.
  15. 2014-08-28
    Attended EMBC 2014 (Chicago) to present a paper on open-source, low-cost, compliant, underactuated prosthetic fingers.
  16. 2014-04-11
    OpenBionics features in a cover photo of an Industrial Technologies 2014 article in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
  17. 2014-04-09
    Attended Industrial Technologies 2014 at the Athens International Conference Centre Megaron to present design directions for open-source, affordable, modular, light-weight, underactuated robot hands.
  18. 2014-02-28
    Attended the 2nd ASU Rehabilitation Robotics Workshop (Memorial Union, Arizona State University) to present a poster on the OpenBionics initiative.
  19. 2014-02-06
    IROS 2014 paper submitted.
  20. 2013-07-18
    Domain openbionics.org registered.