Overview
- ABB and PSYONIC announced on June 16, 2026 a collaboration to mount PSYONIC’s Ability Hand on ABB’s GoFa cobot and record real-world touch and motion data from prosthetic users for robot learning.
- PSYONIC’s Ability Hand uses myoelectric control, pressure sensors and vibration feedback to measure contact, grip force and release, and the device is already used in robotics research by groups such as NASA, Meta and Apptronik.
- ABB says the GoFa cobot provides the accuracy, repeatability and built-in safety needed to translate subtle human-derived grip signals into consistent industrial actions.
- The work is in an R&D and integration phase where teams are collecting and aligning human and robot data; no public performance results or commercial deployments have been released yet.
- The partners plan to explore use cases in automotive, aerospace, packaging, logistics and life sciences, a step that could cut engineering time for handling tasks and allow robots to take on delicate or ergonomically hard jobs that now fall to people.