If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a multi armed cyborg, then a new firm could have the perfect product for you.
Youbionic claims the bizarre contraption can give you ‘extraordinary abilities.’
Controlled by moving your fingers, it can open and close, and its makers say it will let you easily grip objects.
It is controlled using small sensors in the fingers, and a demonstration video shows it pinching and gripping, with each finger moving independently.
The device is shown mimicking the user’s hand.
‘We are taking the first steps to build devices that work by supporting our native ability to obtain extraordinary abilities,’ the firm says.
‘This is the first wearable robotic devices that will evolve the human race in a something new, to turn the Native Human to Augmented Human.’
It has been created by Italian technology designer, Federico Ciccarese.
He has also build a single hand designed for amputees.
It uses electrical signals generated from the brain to move mechanical fingers, in the same way that muscles move when neurons are fire off signals.
YouBionic is 3D-printed from nylon dust, meaning designs for the device can be downloaded online and created by anyone who owns a 3D printer.
‘We can manufacture the hand and all of its moving components in a single piece and with a single print,’ the company writes on its website.
In the current designs, electrodes are attached to the muscle of the remaining part of an amputee’s arm.
These can read brain signals and convert them into the movements of the plastic hand, using a type of microcontroller known as Arduino.
