Better Bionics builds a sensing hand for robots and prospective prosthetics
Better Bionics is building a hand for robot teams that already have an arm or platform but need a way to grasp and manipulate objects. Better Bionics lists Toronto as its location. Founded by Ahmed Ibrahim, the company is developing the hand alongside sensing and local control. It is also exploring a prosthetic application with hospital input. For a robotics developer, a component designed to fit an existing machine could offer another route to adding a hand without building a complete robot from scratch.
A hand for robots already being built
Better Bionics describes a hand with 20 degrees of freedom, a measure of its possible movements. Its proposed sensing system combines touch, cameras, motion sensors and muscle signals; control runs locally on the device.
The company says it is onboarding a small number of teams and invites requests for the hand, embedded intelligence or sensory array. It asks prospective users about their platform and use case before confirming compatibility.
That approach puts the hand into a potential component market rather than requiring Better Bionics to sell an entire robot. Whether individual platforms can use it remains a case-by-case question.
A separate path for prosthetics
Ibrahim is also developing a prosthetic-hand prototype designed to interpret signals from a user's muscles. Hamilton Health Sciences reported in October 2026 that its prosthetics and orthotics team had advised on the design and helped print prototypes.
The clinical route has separate steps from the robotics offer. The hospital reported that a patient-evaluation protocol was being developed for ethics review. CHCH reported that Ibrahim planned a five-person pilot by the end of 2026 and was applying for Health Canada approval.