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July 2010
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Touch Bionics wins award for Most Innovative Company of the Year in Europe in the 2010 International Business Awards. The International Business Awards are the only global, all-encompassing business awards program honouring great performances in business.
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May 2010
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Touch Bionics launches the i-LIMB Pulse, an all-new version of the revolutionary i-LIMB Hand. The i-LIMB Pulse has a host of enhancements, including pulsing grip strength, software-enabled grip patterns and robust aluminium features for improved strength.
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March 2010
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Touch Bionics announced as a winner of the prestigious Queen’s Awards for Enterprise with an award in the Innovation category for 2010. The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are the UK’s most prestigious awards for business performance.
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December 2009
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Touch Bionics launches ProDigits, the world's first powered prosthetic solution for patients with missing fingers. With ProDigits, partial-hand patients have a dexterous powered solution to support their return to function and independence.
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November 2009
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Touch Bionics is the winner of the 2009 Product Design Innovation Award at the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET). Touch Bionics won for its development of the i-LIMB Hand but the awards attracted over 300 entries from around the world.
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October 2009
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Touch Bionics won the 2009 European Bionic Limbs Hot Investment Opportunity Award from global analyst firm, Frost & Sullivan.
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September 2009
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The i-LIMB Hand™ won silver in the 2009 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards and also won top honors in the Medical-Devices category. Competition was extremely intense with over 500 entries received from extremely innovative companies.
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April 2009
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Touch Bionics won silver in the Science and Medical category at the 2009 Edison Best New Product Awards™, sharing the stage with other silver winners such as Google and Speedo.
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March 2009
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A fond farewell to David Gow, inventor of the i-LIMB Hand, as he steps-down to focus on his work within the Scottish NHS.
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Dec 2008
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The i-LIMB Hand wins the Limbless Association’s Prosthetic Product Innovation Award for 2008. The company accepted the award at the Limbless Association’s annual gala dinner in London.
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Nov 2008
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The i-LIMB Hand has been recognised by TIME Magazine as one of the Top 50 inventions of 2008.
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Sep 2008
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The 500th i-LIMB Hand is presented at the AOPA 2008 event in Chicago.
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July 2008
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Da Vinci Award: The i-LIMB Hand has won a 2008 da Vinci Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The Awards recognize the most innovative developments and research in adaptive and assistive technology.
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June 2008
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The team behind the development of the i-LIMB Hand has won the 2008 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award, the UK's premier award for innovation in engineering.
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May 2008
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Touch Bionics announced that it has acquired the complete operations of LIVINGSKIN, the developer of the unique and lifelike prosthetic skin that Touch Bionics supplies with its ground-breaking product.
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Jan 2008
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Touch Bionics announced its incorporation in the United States as Touch Bionics, Inc. Basing U.S. operations out of Boston, MA, this announcement followed the company’s opening of its new headquarters and leading-edge development and manufacturing facility in the United Kingdom earlier in the month.
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July 2007
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At the ISPO Event in Vancouver Touch Bionics cements its commercial presence by releasing the i-LIMB Hand and ProDigits to clinicians from across the world.
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April 2007
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Touch Bionics commences its Marketing Preference Study in the USA for the i-LIMB Hand.
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February 2007
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Touch Bionics secures further financial backing with a 2-tranche investment from Archangel Informal Investments.
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October 2006
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First Public Showing
Rehacare in Dusseldorf saw the first public demonstartion of the i-LIMB Hand technology and ProDigits, the partial hand solution.
Significant media, clinical and patient interest followed.
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September 2006
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Touch Bionics discloses the use of its bionic shoulder in the recently announced Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) ‘Bionic Woman’ project and the forthcoming release of its first commercial product – the i-LIMB Hand - at Rehacare International, Dusseldorf, Germany 18-21 October 2006.
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April 2006
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Touch Bionics secures further financial backing with a £500,000 investment from Archangel Informal Investments. With Touch Bionics shortly entering its clinical test phase, this funding supports the Company’s plans for the manufacture and supply of its first product, the i-LIMB™ Hand.
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January 2006
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"Edinburgh Modular Arm System" is named number 13 in Wired magazine's Top 50 Best Robots Ever, taken from the worlds of movies, industry and science fiction. The i-LIMB™ Shoulder even came ahead of R2D2!
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August 2005
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Touch EMAS relaunched as Touch Bionics at Myoelectric Controls Conference, New Brunswick, Canada. For the first time the unique articulating i-LIMB Hand was demonstrated and attracted widespread interest.
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June 2005
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Touch Bionics' electronic shoulder used in pioneering work for a complete bionic arm at Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
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February 2005
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Touch EMAS wins the "most promising new company" award at Life Sciences Scotland.
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October 2004
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Touch EMAS secures £1million funding from a consortium of wealthy Scottish investors, Lloyds TSB Bank and the public sector.
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March 2004
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Touch EMAS secures further seed investment from Archangel Funding, enabling further development work on the i-LIMB System.
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2003
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Touch EMAS is the first ever spin out company from the NHS, under joint ownership of David Gow and Scottish Health Investment Limited (SHIL). Seed investment from Archangel Funding.
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November 2000
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The partial hand with Prodigits ™ technology was tested by five children at Nottingham City Hospital with great success. The children continued to test the hands for the next six months.
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1998
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The world’s first powered shoulder was fitted to Campbell Aird. Originally called the Edinburgh Shoulder, this was a significant advance in prosthetics, and attracted worldwide attention. Campbell underwent a radical amputation at the shoulder in 1982.
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1993
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A powered partial hand was developed, offering a prosthetic option for users who have a partial hand, either due to
congenitally missing fingers or those who have lost fingers through accidents. This partial hand uses ProDigits™ technology with the motor, gearbox, wiring and gears contained in each finger.
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1960s & 1970s
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Touch Bionics has its roots at the Bioengineering Centre, Edinburgh & formally at The Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital in Edinburgh. This hospital and department gained world renown in the 1960s and 1970s with its specialised patient management and development of pneumatic powered upper limb prostheses for children affected by Thalidomide.
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