Michelle Sun(@michellelsun):Inside Prensilia w/ Managing Director Francesco Clemente Why fingers fail before motors or gears in a robotic hand. "Fingers are the parts that break the most, because you have impacts with objects." Prensilia is a Pisa, Italy hand-design firm founded in 2009. Its Mia hand carries three motors and has survived 300,000 grasp cycles at full grip force in company testing. "So we really try to have high robustness with our devices." "We are talking about thousands of cycles, not really millions of cycles, with the tendons."

2026.09.11 13:00

Inside Prensilia w/ Managing Director Francesco Clemente Why fingers fail before motors or gears in a robotic hand. "Fingers are the parts that break the most, because you have impacts with objects." Prensilia is a Pisa, Italy hand-design firm founded in 2009. Its Mia hand carries three motors and has survived 300,000 grasp cycles at full grip force in company testing. "So we really try to have high robustness with our devices." "We are talking about thousands of cycles, not really millions of cycles, with the tendons."