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Robotic assistance to hand-impaired people represents an as difficult as important challenge. In this context, the research work of the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Florence (UNIFI) led to a tailor-made wearable device for rehabilitative and assistive purposes. In this paper, the synthesis of the development process, sequentially ordered, is given.
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The authors would like to thank the University of Florence and the Don Carlo Gnocchi foundation which have supported this work.
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Secciani, N. et al. (2019). Assistive Hand Exoskeletons: The Prototypes Evolution at the University of Florence. In: Carbone, G., Gasparetto, A. (eds) Advances in Italian Mechanism Science. IFToMM ITALY 2018. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 68. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03320-0_33
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