Faculty laboratory “Robotics” of the Department of Computer Systems and Technologies in MEPhI has worked out a prosthesis prototype using modern technology of rapid prototyping on demand of Motorica company which has significantly lowered the price and made the prothesis more ergonomic.

Mechanical and electromechanical prostheses practically are not worked out in Russia, and the ones which are made cost unjustifiably much and virtually are not developed.

There is another novelty, a system of remote myo-control which uses computing power of modern smartphones. Such type of control has not been used in prostheses so far.

The project solves the problem of availability of cheap upper limb functional prostheses on both Russian and foreign markets. Its aim is the development of and electromechanical hand prosthesis by muscular contraction. During research and development works 3D printing has been widely used which help to lower costs significantly at the development stage. The prosthesis should repeat the functioning of the hand to let people live totally.

“Our prostheses will cost more than 50 % less than the closest analogues, the timer of construction and installation will reduce more than twice (a week), will have a remote control capacity. Prosthetist doctors claim that our prostheses are more convenient, functional and psychologically more acceptable than existing Russian analogues. Global competitiveness is moderate because prostheses have been worked out and financed for a long time in the world. The competitiveness in Russia is high. There is a prospect of total import substitution in this sphere”, - said Vladimir Danshin, post-graduate student of the Department of Computer Systems and Technologies in MEPhI.