Fastest six-cup stack using a prosthetic hand

The fastest six-cup stack completed by someone using an arm prosthesis was achieved by Nicolas Huchet and Team Bionicohand (both FRA). Huchet made a six-cup pyramid in 33 seconds in the finals of the Cybathlon 2024 arm prosthesis race on 27 October 2024.

Cybathlon is a competition that brings together the users and developers of new prosthetics and assistive technologies. It is run by a group at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, and aims to foster improved dialogue between the various organizations working on assistive technologies as well as between designers and users. Each team at Cybathlon comprises a "pilot" (who takes part in the events themselves) and a supporting group of engineers, developers and designers.

Nicolas Huchet lost his right hand in a factory accident when he was 18 years old. He got involved with the open-source hardware community in 2012, after around a decade of frustrations with existing prosthetics. He went on to found the non-profit My Human Kit, which develops and freely distributes designs for bionic prostheses. It is designed to use a mixture of off-the-shelf electronics and 3D-printed parts.