This project could be applied in medicine for the benefit of people who have lost their upper limbs

Jorge Guadalupe, coordinator of the course and tutor of the future professionals, said that this project was born with the idea of mixing mechanics with electronics. The structural part of the arm has been made on a 3D printing machine from a fairly rigid material called polymer.

The project in question tries to simulate the movements of a hand, which is made up of nylon thread tendons that make the fingers and wrist move by means of a glove that directs the movements of the robotic arm.

Michael Laaz, one of the thesis students, mentioned that the novelty of this project is that it is wireless and that they hope to improve every day so that in the future it will be possible to flex more movements of the fingers and wrists. Irving Guillén also commented that his inspiration to make this bionic arm a reality was seeing a colleague with a prosthesis that is fixed and not very functional, which is why they decided to develop a prosthesis that moves and can grip objects.