Tag: fingers
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Columbia scientists build ‘highly dexterous robot hand that can operate in the dark – just like humans’
Columbia university engineers design a robot hand (video below) that is the first device of its kind to join advanced sense of touch with motor-learning algorithms – it doesn’t rely on vision to manipulate objects Think about what you do with your hands when you’re home at night pushing buttons on your TV’s remote control,…
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How to Choose A Gripper for Your Collaborative Robot
Most modern robots are built with both affordability and practicality in mind. This is because there is work that robots can do really well, and there are some simple things that human beings can do better than robots. It is for this reason that collaborative robots have gained popularity in all major industries – robots…
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Festo presents BionicSoftHand and BionicSoftArm
Festo has presented the latest innovations in its BionicSoftHand and BionicSoftArm technologies. Combined with the BionicSoftArm, a pneumatic lightweight robot, the Future Concepts are “suitable for human-robot collaboration”, says Festo. Whether its grabbing, holding or turning, touching, typing or pressing – in everyday life, we use our hands as a matter of course for the…
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Cornell scientists develop new material to give robots more sensitive touch
A new synthetic material created by a scientist at Cornell University is said to give robots a “softer touch”. Developed by PhD student Patricia Xu, at Cornell’s Organic Robotics Lab, the “sensory network” – also dubbed “optical lace” – is said to be similar to the human biological nervous system. The lab’s paper, Optical Lace…
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Cambridge Consultants unveils ‘dexterous robot with the human touch’
Technology research and development company Cambridge Consultants has unveiled what it describes as a “dexterous robot with the human touch”. (See video below.) Breakthrough innovation specialist Cambridge Consultants has developed Hank, a robot with flexible robotic fingers inspired by the human hand. Hank uses a pioneering sensory system embedded in its pneumatic fingers, providing a…