Amazing Robotic Hand Made with 3D Printer
From: Medical Design Technology - 12/03/2013

An inventor has unveiled his plans to revolutionize the health industry by
creating prosthetic limbs using a 3D printer. The National Health Service
(NHS) currently has to pay around £70,000 for a prosthetic hand for an
amputee. But robotics expert Joel Gibbard, 23, has come up with a genius
alternative which would cost just £600.The first-class engineering graduate
has created The Dextrus hand, a fully-working prototype built using a 3D
printer. Dextrus works like a human hand, using electric motors instead of
muscles and steel cables instead of tendons. The 3D printed plastic parts
work like bones and a rubber coating acts as the skin. It takes around eight
hours to print one off.

View a video (2:10) at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/videos/2013/12/amazing-robotic-hand-made-3d-printer

Links:
Joel Gibbard
http://www.openhandproject.org/about/

Dextrus
http://www.openhandproject.org/dextrus/