MacRobert Award 2008

World's first Bionic Hand grabs the UK's biggest engineering prize
10 June 2008

Touch Bionics, the Livingston-based inventors of the world's first commercially available bionic hand, the i-LIMB Hand, have won the 2008 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award. HRH the Duke of Edinburgh presented the team with a £50,000 prize and the solid gold MacRobert Award medal at the Academy Awards Dinner at Merchant Taylors' Hall in London last night.

• The four MacRobert 2008 finalists

• MacRobert at the Science Museum

• Academy Awards 2008

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