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Abstract

Surface electromyography is a technology that provides detection of electrical activity produced by the physiological contractions of muscles; the sEMG is widely applied in medical assistive applications such as gesture control for upper limb prosthetics. Nowadays, there are many useful devices for innovative and new medical technologies in health care. Myo armband is an example for these devices which can be used for many applications in computer, mobiles and gaming system. In this paper the control of prosthetic hand of 3DOF in each finger via wearable MYO armband communicates wireless with the Arduino microcontroller via Bluetooth piece. The MYO armband has eight electromyography (EMG) sensors for collecting bioelectric signals from different parts of the forearm muscle; Myo armband is a wearable gesture and motion control device that uses a set of electromyography sensors, combined with a gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer to detect movements and gestures, the test was done on a healthy person and an amputee person .In this work another sensor was used the FSR sensor to make the prosthetic hand smart when touching specific object this feature made the prosthetic hand intelligent.