Esper Bionics CEO Dima Gazda breaks down how they're creating a mind-controlled bionic hand that guest smarter the more you use it, and what this innovation means for the future of the prosthetics industry.

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This Mind-Controlled Bionic Hand Gets Smarter The More You Use It

Welcome back to cheddar innovates brought to you by curiosity stream. Our next guest is bringing long overdue upgrades to the prosthetics industry. The esper hand is powered by artificial intelligence with almost human like dexterity and it also is self learning. So the more a person wears it and uses it, the better it gets. So joining us now is dima gah xda ceo esper bionic to talk more about this. Thank you so much for joining us now first. Can you walk us through um you know how this mind controlled bionic hand actually works? It sounds so fascinating, thank you for having me here today. Hello from prosthetic Clinic. I'm today with users so how does it work? one user want to control but on the hands, brains sound signals to the muscles of residual part of the limb and we detect which muscle exactly were actuated in that part of the limp by wearable device that touches the skin. Surface activation of different muscles lead to different calls to action. So user can move separate fingers or choose any grasp for different objects. So basically they think I want to move my thumb and the brain tells it to move the thumb. That's pretty much how it works. You think about it? Okay, so what are some of the features that make this different from some of the traditional prosthetics that we've seen today? Like 98% of all prosthetic hands have no function to have one function. Just open close grip and there are few multifunctional hands is that can do more movements but they are still in most of cases controlled by Two big groups of muscles. Flags or six dancers that kind of to control all functionality of prosthetic hand by two buttons that is slow and bob king. We can control bionic hand by detecting activation of each month holes that kind of to control the hand by 20 Buttons much faster. And on top of this we add recognition of user behavior. We can predict in advance the preferred grip for his situation and help users to choose the right grade wow. So you don't squeeze someone's hands too hard. For example, that's important. And I mean I'm just looking at it. It's kind of a nice design is beautiful in the way it looks very sleek because so you know, can you talk about the design a little bit because I know it was celebrated by the world's most popular and influential architectural interiors and Design magazine. So talk to us a little bit about the design choices and the importance behind that. The city count is it's a part of the body. So therefore it's important to the design of it. It's about civilization, about self confidence. And when we have started designing the hand, we have found out the huge problem of the market, all the hands are like robert like mhm like the hand of terminator, not anatomical enough and we have built the first hand that is within anatomical shapes and can um It is it is the first, I would say female like hat on the market elegant, sleek, precise back from the market. I making conclusions that that is one of the big advantages right now of our prosthetic at the video that you see right now is our first M. V. P. Before we have switched to that sleek design. We had also robot like. Well that is pretty impressive. So I gotta ask you. It looks so cool. It seems too good to be true. So how much does this prosthetic cost compared to traditional prosthetics? Traditional prosthetics that prosthetic cans that have no function have 111 function. Uh z coast from 5 to 25 K. Uh per hand. and multifunctional hands today costs from 20 to 80 $1000. And about the price of our hand, we don't have yet. Final price. We are working with close group of users right now and getting feedback from the market about the price of the hands probably it will be between 20 and 35. King, wow. Did you ever see there being a day where you guys will put like actual skin or skin like material over the hand to match the person's complexion? Yes. And that is the first hand, is that uh anatomical shapes so you will not um recognize uh Is it, is it robots robotic hunt or biological? Wow. That's pretty impressive. I'm so excited to see what the next 10 years will be like for you all and everything that you're doing, making life easier for others to actually, you know, feel like they have working hands altogether. So thank you. Deem A Gaza Ceo of esper bionics. We appreciate your time.