A “biohybrid” robotic hand built using real human muscle cells
Once the team made MuMuTAs work, they used five of them to actuate multi-jointed fingers in a robotic hand.
Soft robotic prosthetic hand uses nerve signals for more natural control
Researchers unveiled a new soft prosthetic hand that combines the natural coordination patterns of our fingers with the decoding of motoneuron activity in the spinal column.
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Robotic hand grips toys, bottles like humans with 99.69% accuracy, avoids mishandling
Developed by Johns Hopkins University researchers, the bionic hand identified and manipulated 15 everyday objects, including ...
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Feeling is believing: Bionic hand 'knows' what it's touching, grasps like a human
The system's hybrid design is a first for robotic hands, which have typically been too rigid or too soft to replicate a human's touch when handling objects of varying textures and materials. The ...
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A New Robotic Hand Is Helping Pianists Play Faster and Better With No Extra Practice
The device straps on top of a pianist’s hand, with small motors attached to each finger. It can move each finger ...
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Assistive robotic grasping device gives a hand to users' hands
An experimental device has been designed to help such folks lift cumbersome objects, by adding a robotic hand to the back of their dominant hand. If a person suffers a spinal cord injury between ...
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A sophisticated new robot hand could change lives of amputees
An curved arrow pointing right. Researchers at Swiss university ETH Zurich created a humanlike robotic hand using new 3D printing technology to create more sophisticated prosthetics. More from ...