This wearable Robot will give 2 extra fingers to our Hand. Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of the human hand. This wrist-wearable robot gives two extra fingers to our hand. The robotic fingers are at either side of the the hand - one outside the thumb, and the other outside the little finger. With the assistance of these extra fingers, we can grasp objects that are usually too difficult to do with a single hand. For now, the robot mimics the grasping of a hand, closing in and spreading apart in response to a humans fingers. But the researchers would like to take the robot one step further, controlling not just position, but also force. The researchers believe that further developments will reduce the size of these robotic fingers, and it will become foldable. We could make this into a wrist watch or a bracelet where the fingers pop up, and when the job is done, they come back into the watch. #Robot #Technology
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 06:45:18 +0000
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