Persons with severe physical disabilities (limited or no hand control) often use mouth- or headsticks to handle things (pressing buttons, pushing things, etc.) in the nearer environment including computers. Standard mouthsticks do not allow the grabbing of objects. Such a functionality would considerably improve the benefit of sticks and enhance abilities and independence of users.

This paper introduces the prototype of an EMG signal controlled pneumatic gripper for mouthsticks. It shows the assembly of the prototype, discusses two approaches to control the gripper and finally points out some user experiments.