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Hand Exoskeletons

FLEXotendon Glove — soft wearable rehabilitation for spinal cord injury.

Overview

The FLEXotendon Glove series is a soft robotic hand exoskeleton for people with spinal cord injury: voice-controlled, tendon-driven, and patient-specific, with admittance grasping control and a novel fabrication method.

FLEXotendon Glove hand rehabilitation exoskeleton
FLEXotendon Glove hand rehabilitation exoskeleton

Demonstrations

FLEXotendon Glove-III

Representative Publications

FLEXotendon Glove-III: Voice-Controlled Soft Robotic Hand Exoskeleton With Novel Fabrication Method and Admittance Grasping Control

FLEXotendon Glove-III: Voice-Controlled Soft Robotic Hand Exoskeleton With Novel Fabrication Method and Admittance Grasping Control

P. Tran*, S. Jeong, F. Lyu, K. Herrin, S. Bhatia, D. Elliott, S. Kozin, J. P. Desai

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics · 2022

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A Review: Hand Exoskeleton Systems, Clinical Rehabilitation Practices, and Future Prospects

A Review: Hand Exoskeleton Systems, Clinical Rehabilitation Practices, and Future Prospects

P. Tran, S. Jeong (co-first), K. Herrin, J. P. Desai

IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics · 2021

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