At One with His Ability Hand
Meet Shaun Melendy and hear about the unique surgery that helps him feel ‘at one’ with his Ability Hand — along with the doctors and research foundation that helped make it all happen.
Ability Hand featured in IEEE Pulse magazine
IEEE Pulse is one of the biggest magazines for electrical engineering in biology and medicine, and the Ability Hand was featured in the April issue.
PSYONIC’s equity raise reaches $1 Million
We’ve raised more than $1 million on StartEngine, and there’s still time for you to invest!
Ability Hand featured on 60 Minutes
The Ability Hand was featured on 60 Minutes, controlled by a patient using technology implanted directly into his brain.
Breaking Barriers: How the Ability Hand is Changing Lives
Builder Nation, a podcast for the community of hardware leaders developing world-changing products, covered the Ability Hand. CEO Aadeel Akhtar talked to host Elisa Muñoz about the future of PSYONIC, osteointegration, the process of getting a bionic hand, and building San Diego into the bionics capital of the world.
Australia and osteointegration
Read more about CEO Aadeel Akhtar’s trip to Australia to learn about a new bone integration technique from the surgeon who developed it.
On the Cover of The O&P Edge
The Ability Hand made the cover of The O&P Edge magazine, the most-read publication in the industry.
“The use case is amazing.”
Catch CEO Aadeel Akhtar and user Dan St. Pierre on POC Network.
“A revolution in bionic technology”
Interesting Engineering got a look at the Ability Hand during CES 2023.
Only one person in the world has had this surgery — and he’s an Ability Hand user
Only one person in the world has experienced agonist-antagonist myoneural interface surgery after a traumatic upper-limb amputation. Meet Ability Hand user Shaun Melendy.
PSYONIC releases Ability Hand for research users
The bionic hand is already being used at Facebook, NASA, and Apptronik and is part of two ANA Avatar XPRIZE finalists.
PSYONIC, Maker of ‘The World’s Most Badass Prosthetic’ Hand, Launches Fundraising Round
Company will expand and accelerate the development of its Ability Hand, the fastest and only multi-touch sensing bionic hand on the market.
Meet the Team: Jesse Cornman, Director of Engineering
Meet Jesse, one of the longest tenured PSYONIC employees. He's been with us since before we were even a company! In this interview, Jesse explains how he got started at PSYONIC and what he loves most about working here.
Meet the Team: James Austin, Lead Mechanical Engineer
“Imagination. Creativity. Attention to detail. Ability to multitask. And passion for the work.” Meet our lead mechanical engineer, James Austin, and find out why he says these are the skills required to do his job well.
Advanced Prosthetics Made Accessible: How PSYONIC Developed a Bionic Hand Using Additive Manufacturing
Formlabs went in depth with user Garrett Anderson, CEO Aadeel Akhtar, and engineer James Austin to learn more about the ways we used additive manufacturing while prototyping our Ability Hand design.
5 Questions with PSYONIC Founder & CEO Aadeel Akhtar
Catch up with PSYONIC Founder & CEO, Dr. Aadeel Ahktar, as he answers questions about his inspiration and commitment to making bionic limbs more affordable and accessible, where the market potential exists for PSYONIC product innovations, and his vision for the future of the company.
Why we built a bionics company
Our journey to #RedefineHuman started with a seven year old boy’s dream to improve the lives of people with limb differences. Learn the story behind PSYONIC and how our founder and CEO, Aadeel Akhtar was inspired to build a revolutionary bionics company that would make the best prosthetic technologies available and accessible to anyone who needs them.
PSYONIC Brings Advanced Bionics to San Diego
The San Diego Business Journal caught up with PSYONIC Founder & CEO Aadeel Akhtar about our recent move and vision for making San Diego "the bionics capital of the world."
PSYONIC moving headquarters to San Diego, California
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.