Esper Bionics was founded in 2019 by Dmytro Gazda, Anna Belevantseva, Ihor Ilchenko and Borys Lobanov. It is headquartered in New York, with research and manufacturing in Ukraine and Germany. The company makes the Esper Hand — an AI-powered, self-learning bionic hand that adapts to each user's habits over time. The Esper Hand featured on the cover of TIME magazine's Best Inventions issue in 2022. (Note: founding-year sources vary — early work began around 2017, with the company formally founded in 2019.)