Touch Bionics: New Limbs, New Hope

Touch Bionics is a prosthetic technologies and support services company established to make sure that people with deficiencies in the upper limb can have access to the best prosthetic products. Touch Bionics produces such superior products as myoelectric prosthetic hand prosthetic fingers. Its passive silicone prostheses are realistic because they match the natural appearance of the person wearing them.

The earliest known record of Touch Bionics’ history began in 1963 when the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital in Edinburgh began a program to conduct a comprehensive research that would lead to the development of prosthetic solutions to the children patients suffering from Thalidomide. Research and development at Touch Bionics made sense when the Bioengineering Center of the hospital accommodated David Gow. After the success of the electronic arm in 1986, Touch Bionics produced the partial hand system in 1993, which earned international publicity for the first electronically powered shoulder.

A successful spin-out company was created from the National Health System through the Scottish Health Innovations Ltd. The spun-out company was led by Gow and was known as Touch EMAS (Edinburgh Modular Arm System). A rebranding was done in 2005 which led to a new name: Touch Bionics. The new name demonstrates the company’s dynamic innovations that focuses on the future of the prosthetics technology.