Prensilia was founded in 2009 as a spinf-off of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna from the idea and desire of a group of researchers from ARTS Lab – Advanced Robotics Technology&Systems Laboratory – to make the technologies developed usable for all national and international research laboratories.

The Tuscan company for years has supplied highly dexterous anthropomorphic grippers to a variety of research centers and many universities, both for educational and purely cutting-edge and research purposes.

Products developed in Prensilia have been included R&D projects in various fields, such as artificial intelligence neuroscience, prosthetics, human-robot interaction, and humanoid robotics.

Since 2016, Prensilia has increasingly embarked on the path of developing prosthetic upper limb medical devices, with the aim of markedly improving the quality of life for people who have undergone amputation. 2016 is a significant year for Prensilia, just in 2016 it enters to be part of the European project DeTOP, an ideal environment in which the first prototype of Mia Hand is developed.

Today, Mia Hand stands as the ideal balance between functional needs and control simplicity and aesthetic requirements.
Mia Hand is thus the world’s first myoelectric upper limb prosthesis to be entirely externally customizable. Its meticulous design, painstaking and careful research and prototyping made Mia Hand a 2019 Reddot Award winner, receiving praise for design and functionality.