COVVI Unveils Novel Touch Sensing Bionic Tech For The COVVI Hand
Coming soon, COVVI Touch will provide first-of-its-kind sensory feedback for people who use upper limb prosthetics. When accompanied with COVVI Touch, sensors in every single digit of COVVI’s bionic hand can detect when an object has been grasped. A vibrational response will then be relayed to the user’s residual limb, establishing a sense of touch.
Scientific evidence shows that many bionic devices rely heavily on a user’s eyesight to ensure accuracy for the completion of everyday activities. This can be seen as a limitation, especially with activities that require two hands or multiple focus areas.
COVVI Touch has been developed with the purpose of addressing this unique challenge and enhancing the level of functionality for people who use upper-limb prosthetics. The upcoming device can provide users with personalised and programmable sensory feedback from all five digits of the bionic hand, an industry first.
Traditionally, information is passed one way from a user’s limb through their socket and to their hand. By installing COVVI Touch, information can now be transferred both ways, allowing users to experience a sense of touch in as fast as 0.5 seconds.
“We are unlocking technology that was built into the foundations of the COVVI Hand.” Commented COVVI CEO, Simon Pollard, “Touch sensing technology equips our users with more tools than ever before to tackle daily tasks. I am pleased to say that after so much hard work, we have created a sensory module that succeeds in doing just that – adding to the already tangible difference that we are making to the lives of our users.”
Clinicians and users alike can use COVVI’s intuitive app to set up exactly how they would like to receive touch feedback. With adjustable settings for things like the grips that you would like to receive feedback in, the strength of the vibration, and how the feedback is relayed (a single pulse, continuous vibration when in contact, or a recurring pulse).
COVVI Touch can also provide users with a further sense of how large or small an object is, with the vibration increasing in intensity depending on the number of digits in contact with an object.
Learn more about COVVI Touch, alongside the rest of the COVVI catalogue, at OTWorld, Leipzig – one of the largest prosthetic events in the world – from 19-22 May at stand F19.
