Touch Bionics

In early 2003, Touch Bionics, a spin-out from the NHS Scotland via Scottish Health Innovations Ltd (SHIL) was created.

The company was initially called Touch EMAS, EMAS standing for Edinburgh Modular Arm System. In 2005 it was re-branded Touch Bionics to communicate the dynamism of the company’s products and the future focus of its prosthesis technology.

Touch Bionics has launched three key products, the i-LIMB Hand,
ProDigits, and LIVINGSKIN. The i-LIMB Hand  is the world’s first commercially available multi-articulating bionic hand. It has five independently powered digits that open and close around objects.
It supports amputees in going about their everyday lives. In medicine, bionics means the replacement or enhancement of organs or other body parts by mechanical means. more ProDigits, short for Prosthetic Digits, are the self-contained fingers that are individually powered and controlled to provide new fingers for
partial hand patients with severed fingers. The i-LIMB Hand is effectively a chassis for five ProDigits. Individual ProDigits are used for patients who have lost part of their hand or a whole finger or fingers.

LIVINGSKIN, is a unique and lifelike prosthetic skin that Touch
Bionics supplies with the i-LIMB hand. An aesthetic restoration solution that is a high-definition silicone prosthesis created to resemble human skin by mimicking the three dermal layers of natural human skin. To ensure proper color matching and fit,
every prosthesis is custom crafted for each individual. LIVINGSKIN prostheses can be created and fitted for any level of finger, hand, arm or lower limb amputation.