12 years ago Whitney Akhtar and I moved from Chicago to Champaign so that I could start an MD/PhD program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Thinking we would be here for 8 years before I started residency, we decided to buy a house a year in. If there is one thing I've learned, it has been that it is impossible to predict the future.

Popular Mechanics called the Ability Hand “the world’s most badass prosthetic,” saying “This Prosthetic Hand Is Stronger, Lighter, and Better Than You.” Not gonna lie, we love it!

CNBC covered PSYONIC as part of its “Miracles in the Works” series on The News with Shepard Smith. They talked to Sgt. Garrett Anderson and CEO Dr. Aadeel Akhtar about the Ability Hand’s unique touch feedback, calling it “vibrations to restore sensations” to “more fully merge man and machine.”

WGN met up with CEO Dr. Aadeel Akhtar and user Dan St. Pierre to get a look at just what the Ability Hand can do. “Once you start doing it, it becomes second nature,” St. Pierre said.

“Fast, tough, and intuitive, the Ability Hand is the first and only bionic hand with multi-touch sensory feedback on the market.”

In a recent review of the Ability Hand, Bionics for Everyone said: “One of the things we really like about...PSYONIC is their focus on features that truly matter to bionic hand users, such as durability, weight, responsiveness (i.e. closing speed), sensory feedback, water/dust resistance, and of course price.

CHICAGO INNO named PSYONIC one its “12 Chicago Moonshot Startups” back in 2019 — calling us “a company that's taking a big, ambitious swing at solving hard, complex problems. And if successful, the startup's work could have massive impacts on our society and how we live.” Today, they covered our national launch.

The PSYONIC Ability Hand will be available to users and clinicians nationwide on September 1, 2021. It's the world's fastest and first touch-sensitive bionic hand, and it's going to help people unleash the very best in themselves.

Reporter Ash-har Quraishi visited Champaign to find out more about the Ability Hand and how it helps users unlock their PSYONIC ability. The story ran on local television newscasts all over the country this week. Check it out on WMAR-2 News Baltimore.

Each year, MIT Technology Review picks 35 young innovators who are "working on creative solutions to some of humanity's hardest problems." And this year, CEO Dr. Aadeel Akhtar made that very short list that has previously included Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Jony Ive.

ScienceNews covered PSYONIC’s work with John Rogers and his research team at Northwestern University including a wireless skin patch that can provide sensory feedback from prosthetics like the Ability Hand to users.