29th December 2025
Open Bionics has achieved some incredible engineering feats over the years. From launching the world’s first fully 3D printed prosthetic arm, to partnering with companies like Disney and Marvel to empower kids with limb differences to feel like superheroes. After 12 years in upper limb prosthetics, 2025 pushed us into new territory. We launched a game-changing new paradigm for upper limb design, with 3 industry-first technologies at the same time;
These technologies all feature in Hero RGD, Hero PRO and MyoPods, which we launched in 2025. These are not just cool innovations, they’re targeted technical decisions resulting from a decade of patient and clinician feedback and learnings. They address real problems around usability, wearability, durability, and comfort. Not everyone will understand our choices, and that’s ok. Very few people understood when we led the industry with the first 3D printed prosthesis, but now, all the big P&O companies are beginning to utilize 3D printing to build better sockets, liners, and devices.
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For the first time, people have been able to get their entire prosthetic arm wet without worrying about water damage, for the first time, prosthetists have been able to build a bionic arm without having to worry about where they would integrate the battery and route wires, and for the first time, people have been able to seamlessly switch between bionic, body-powered and activity terminal devices with the same arm
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Innovation involves taking risks. In 2025, we bet the house on new technologies that we believed would meet patient and clinician needs better than anything that’s been done previously. The feedback we’ve received has been incredible. For the first time, people have been able to get their entire prosthetic arm wet without worrying about water damage, for the first time, prosthetists have been able to build a bionic arm without having to worry about where they would integrate the battery and route wires, and for the first time, people have been able to seamlessly switch between bionic, body-powered and activity terminal devices with the same arm. We’re constantly amazed by what our users are doing with their prostheses, and feel privileged by the challenge to support their wide-ranging goals. In 2025, the introduction of Hero RGD and Hero PRO with titanium and stainless steel parts brought market-leading durability, even in heavy-duty use cases, unlocking the ability to do even more with your prosthesis.
But the most excitement for everyone at Open Bionics comes not from where we got to in 2025, but where we’re going. Our vision spans three pillars. We aspire to deliver assistive devices that:
Everything we do is aligned to this vision, and that’s why not everything we do will make sense to everyone when we do it, but looking backwards, you can see how it’s connected. When we started out, people often found it hard to understand why we were intent on designing not just a prosthetic hand, but a fully integrated socket system. From our early patient and clinician interviews, we understood that our vision would be impossible if we didn’t build all the components. How could we ensure accessibility, comfort and confidence without focussing on the most important part of the prosthesis? Socket design within upper limb prosthetics needed a major overhaul to increase comfort and reduce weight for the average wearer. For the same reason, we started offering clinical services, and in 2025, we doubled our clinical network in the USA by launching 6 new clinical centres.
We now operate 12 certified clinical centres in the US and support hundreds of partner clinics. This is really important for Open Bionics. We recognise that we are extremely privileged to work with so many upper limb patients everyday, and that most CPOs spend only a tiny fraction of their time working with upper limb amputees. We have employed CPOs at Open Bionics for 8 years to deliver upper limb patient care and we have built a wealth of experience and knowledge on upper limb socket design over that time. We enjoy sharing this know-how and supporting our partner clinical colleagues through the process of supporting their own upper limb patients when they may be nervous about achieving a great fit and outcome. We are here to help the industry at-large support upper limb patients no matter the level of experience or ability to fabricate. We love to help and we’re excited to do much more of it in 2026 with our team of dedicated educational specialists. I’m incredibly proud of our amazing team of prosthetists and support staff who work each day to deliver top class clinical care to our patients and our clinical partners. We take this responsibility seriously and believe feedback from all is paramount to improving prosthesis design, access, and clinical support which ultimately improves patient outcomes.
It’s a long road ahead, but we’re extremely grateful for the opportunity to keep trying to push the industry forward, and continue improving upper limb care informed by feedback from our amazing community.
Thanks for your support in 2025, what an incredible year. Stay tuned for more launches to come in 2026. We are truly just getting started. 🦾
Founders – Sammy and Joel
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