In this talk Minas Liarokapis, founder of OpenBionics, presents how he created the most efficient robotic hand. Although humans have the most powerful processor, our brain, although we are able to perform complicated tasks, we are weak and fragile. An accident can result in one person losing a limb, which can have important consequences on their life. To overcome this problem, robotic hands were created, however they are extremely expensive and not able to perform many tasks successfully. The robotic hand presented in this talk overcomes all the limitations that other robotic hands have. It is extremely skillful and it is created with simple materials. Its designs are available online as free and open source so that everyone can use them and create their own prosthetic limb. What we learn in this talk is that anyone can be a source of innovation. For this reason we must not hesitate and take the step to put our ideas forward.
Dr. Minas Liarokapis was born in Athens in 1984. He received an MSc degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras (Greece), an MSc degree in Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (Greece). He is currently a Postdoc Associate with the GRAB Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University (USA). Minas is the founder of the OpenBionics initiative and a co-founder of HandCorpus and OpenRobotHardware. His research focuses on human robot interaction, robot grasping and manipulation, robot hands design, non-invasive brain machine interfaces, prosthetics, machine learning & pattern recognition. He passion is to provide robotics solutions to everyday life problems, synthesizing sophisticated analytical, machine learning & optimisation schemes, developing novel robotics & bionics hardare
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