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The human hand is a highly complex system with five co-operating manipulators and each manipulator(finger) has three links or phalanges. Hand has more than twenty degrees of freedom including abduction and adduction. Objective of any prosthetic hand would be to do as many grasps as possible with minimum weight and minimum cost. Different types of mechanisms are available like pneumatic hands, tendon...