South Africa: Wits Researchers Interpret Brainwaves to Give Amputees a Hand

[Daily Maverick] Top marks are due for a bionic hand engineered by Wits University postgraduates, who have made mobility more accessible to the 1 million amputees in South Africa. Their 3D-printed hand is not only light in weight, but light on the pocket, as it drops the cost of this prosthetic from around US$100 000 to US$78.