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This includes exploring grasping movements that may provide the most functional benefits and techniques to control the newly available dexterity. Currently, no dexterous pediatric research platforms exist that offer open access to hardware and programming to facilitate the investigation and provision of multi-grasp function. Our objective was to deliver a child-sized multi-grasp prosthesis that may serve as a robust research platform. In anticipation of an open-source release, we performed a comprehensive set of benchtop and functional tests with common household objects to quantify the performance of our device. This work discusses and evaluates our pediatric-sized multiarticulate prosthetic hand that provides 6 degrees of actuation, weighs 177\u00a0g and was designed specifically for ease of implementation in a research or clinical-research setting. 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