From clothes and shoes to smartphone cases and even guns, there seems to be no limits to what 3D printers can create. And now, you can add prosthetic hands and fingers to the mix.

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Robohand is a mechanical 3D-printed hand that can be created using a MakerBot 3D printer. Richard Van As, a South Africa-based woodworker, originally conceived the idea in 2011 after losing four of his fingers in an accident. Van As soon began collaborating with Seattle-based prop designer Ivan Owen to create a design for inexpensive prosthetics that could work as effectively as real hands and fingers. The pair soon found, however, that custom-made prosthetic fingers could cost as much as $10,000 per finger.

Enter MakerBot, which saw Van As' and Owen's promising project, and donated a Replicator 2 Desktop 3D printer to each of them. The printers, according to MakerBot, will help speed up the process of creating prosthetic hands and fingers, as well as lower production costs.

"While a full set of prosthetic fingers may cost thousands of dollars, all of the Robohand parts that are made on the MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer add up to roughly several dollars ($2.50 USD) in material costs and the total cost is around $150 USD."

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Robohand可以3D打印义肢和手指

从衣服，鞋子到智能手机的情况下，甚至枪，似乎有没有限制到什么3D打印机可制作。而现在，你可以添加假肢手和手指的组合。

参见：三维打印面，使这人的生命完整了

ROBOHAND是机械三维印刷手可以使用一个MakerBot三维打印机创建。理查德·范·作为一个南非的木工，最初设想的想法，2011年在一次事故中失去了他的四个手指后。范一旦开始与总部位于西雅图的道具设计师伊万·欧文合作，创建一个设计便宜的假肢，可以作为有效的工作为真正的手和手指。两人很快就找到了，然而，定制的假肢手指成本可能高达$ 10,000的手指。

输入MakerBot，看见凡作为“和欧文的有前途的项目，并捐赠一复制2桌面3D打印机在他们每个人。该打印机，根据MakerBot，将有助于加快建立假肢手和手指的过程，以及降低生产成本。

“虽然全套假肢的手指可以花费数千美元，所有这些都在MakerBot Replicator的2桌面3D打印机制作的ROBOHAND部分加起来大概几十元的材料成本（$ 2.50美元），总成本大约是$ 150个美元。”