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China’s robot prosthetic hand hits 19 degrees of freedom with human-like skill
With this new lightweight prosthetic hand, activities like tying knots, combing hair, and playing chess could become much ...
‘Winning hands’: My father showed me the power of the human spirit to overcome challenges
After losing his fingers to frostbite shoveling snow at an Eagles game, Omar Woodard's father found renewed purpose. And he ...
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Biohybrid hand gestures with human muscles
A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been created. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown muscle tissue bundled into sushilike rolls to give the fingers enough ...
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Lightweight prosthetic hand matches human dexterity with 19 degrees of freedom
A team of researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has recently developed a lightweight prosthetic hand with 19 degrees of freedom (DOF), capable of replicating human ...
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Researchers create biohybrid hands with human muscles
A biohybrid hand which can move objects and make a scissor gesture has been created. The researchers used thin strings of lab ...
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Biohybrid hand uses sushi-like rolls of lab-grown human muscle to move objects
A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been built by a team at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown ...
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Lab-grown ‘sushi roll’ muscle brings biohybrid prosthetic hands closer to reality
This technology is a significant advancement in biohybrid prosthetics, with applications in medicine, rehabilitation, and ...
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A Human Perspective on Robotic Hand Design, Analysis, Control and Beyond
The physical interaction with the environment through grasping is critical for many robotic applications, particularly in dynamic and unstructured settings ...
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I pitted hands-free driving tech against I-95’s speeding drivers
My hands-free test drive of a Chevrolet Traverse on busy highways was going surprisingly well. The SUV’s driver-assist ...
Human hands are astonishing tools. Here's why robots are struggling to match them
Our hands perform thousands of complex tasks every day – can artificial intelligence help robots match these extraordinary human appendages?
Sabrina Ionescu hands out laptops at NBA All-Star event, eyes eventual rematch with Steph Curry
WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu was back in her native Bay Area Thursday, teaming up with AT&T and Human IT to hand out hundreds of ...