An Overview of the Unb Hand System
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In 2007, the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) received funding from the Canadian government’s Atlantic Innovation Fund program to develop a commercially viable and technologically advanced prosthetic hand system. The 5-year project includes several collaborators namely, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago’s (RIC) BioMechatronics Development Laboratory, the Université de Moncton’s (UdeM) Thin Films and Photonics Research Group, UNB’s Applied Nanotechnology Laboratory (ANL), and Liberating Technologies Inc.
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