8E500 - Hand prosthetics

Michelangelo hand

The Michelangelo hand helps you regain your freedom

The Michelangelo prosthetic hand features a highly natural design that’s built on advanced technology.

The Michelangelo prosthetic hand features a highly natural design that’s built on advanced technology.

It will give you more ways to move your hand, and make all sorts of everyday tasks easier and more natural. Imagine being able to grasp and hold objects with greater control—and less effort.

User groupwomen, men, adults, mature adults
Product familyMichelangelo Axon Bus
ColourWhite
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Benefits at a glance

Michelangelo – versatile and sophisticated

Markus reading a magazine
Numerous gripping options

Thanks to the numerous functions of the Michelangelo hand, you have seven different hand positions available to you. Whether you’re cooking, turning pages in a book or typing on a keyboard, the Michelangelo hand helps you integrate the required movements so they become a natural part of your everyday life, leisure time and work.

Sjaak casually peels a banana
Relaxed wrist joint

The AxonWrist mechanical wrist can be flexed and extended as well as rotated inwards and outwards. In a flexible mode, the AxonWrist simulates the movement characteristics of a relaxed, natural wrist. Unnatural compensating movements are thereby avoided, promoting a healthy body posture.

Michelangelo hand design
Natural design

For the product designers and developers, making the appearance and feel of the Michelangelo hand resemble a natural hand as closely as possible posed a special challenge. The fingers are made of both hard and soft materials and based on the human hand in detail. More so than previously available round wrist joints, the flat oval hand adapter adds to the natural appearance. Compatible prosthetic gloves are available in six colour variations.

Michelangelo hand AxonSkin
Compatible gloves

Suitable for everyday use, the prosthetic gloves have a multilayer structure and come in six shades. Coloured fibres on the inside simulate the natural vein structure of the human hand. Lamella integrated into the hand shells lend a natural appearance to the movement of the wrist and thumb. A translucent and a black prosthetic glove are available for those who want to show off their modern prosthesis.

User Experience

Grasping without thinking twice

Michelangelo hand – Marcus from Austria

Markus shows us how he works. He shares some insights into his family life with the Michelangelo hand prosthesis. He discusses important situations in his life and how he manages with the prosthesis.

Functionality

Variability and gripping force

Seven different grips

Very few parts of the human body are as complex as our hands. Only the perfect interplay between nerves, sinews, a total of 27 bones, 39 muscles and 36 joints makes it possible for us to carry out everyday activities as a matter of course. One of the greatest challenges faced by medical technology is using prostheses to model as many of these numerous functions as possible. With its seven different gripping possibilities, the Michelangelo hand restores numerous functions of the natural hand. Its gripping force is between 6 and 7 kg. You can adjust and control the force needed to hold a heavy or light object with the Michelangelo hand.

Seven different grips
Specifications

Product information

User groupwomen, men, adults, mature adults
Product familyMichelangelo Axon Bus
ColourWhite
Product typeAxonTerminal devices

Product Data

Article number8E500=L-M8E500=R-M
Sideleftright
Size7 3/47 3/4
User groupwomen, men, adults, mature adultswomen, men, adults, mature adults
Operating voltage11,1 V11,1 V
Operating temperature-10 to +60 °C-10 to +60 °C
Opening width120 mm120 mm
Gripping force in opposition mode70 N70 N
Gripping force in neutral mode15 N15 N
Grip speed325 mm/sec325 mm/sec
Weight510 g510 g
Article numberSideSizeUser groupOperating voltageOperating temperatureOpening widthGripping force in opposition modeGripping force in neutral modeGrip speedWeight
8E500=L-Mleft7 3/4women, men, adults, mature adults11,1 V-10 to +60 °C120 mm70 N15 N325 mm/sec510 g
8E500=R-Mright7 3/4women, men, adults, mature adults11,1 V-10 to +60 °C120 mm70 N15 N325 mm/sec510 g
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