Robotic rehabilitation glove wins Microsoft's 20th Imagine Cup for student inventors

In the case of a limb injury it’s often muscles and tendons that need rehabilitation, but with neurological damage it’s also necessary to make sure that the brain is sending the right signals as well.The team was focused on making the glove portable and affordable — other things like this can rely on pneumatic or hydraulic mechanisms, which are bulky and slow.Image Credits: V BionicImage Credits: V BionicThe white structure you see in the image at top is a 3D printed exoskeleton, while the black covering and “backpack” house the sensors, servos and other electronics.“Flexor linkage-driven movement gives us the flexibility to individually actuate different parts of each finger (phalanges) whilst keeping the device portable,” said Samdani in an email to TechCrunch.