The Forgotten Giant: How the “Belgrade Hand” Helped Write the Early History of Humanoid Robotics

Belgrade Hand, the world’s first myoelectric bionic prosthetic hand developed in the 1960s

Built in early-1960s Belgrade, the Belgrade Hand became a landmark in bionics and robotics. Its concepts—myoelectric control, sensor feedback, and adaptive grasping—helped shape modern humanoid manipulation, even though it never reached mass clinical use.