Stretchable pressure sensor could lead to better robotics, prosthetics
In the future, soft robotic hands with advanced sensors could help diagnose and care for patients or act as more lifelike prostheses.
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Tiny hand-shaped gripper can grasp and hold a snail's egg
A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in the Republic of Korea has developed a tiny, soft robotic hand that can grasp small objects and measure their temperature. They have published their results in ...
Oct 14, 2021 report
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Robot uses tactile sign language to help deaf-blind people communicate independently
Jaimi Lard gets into position. She cups her left hand over the device, spreading her fingers across the top of it, and raises her right hand. When Lard is ready, Samantha Johnson presses a few keys on a laptop wired to the ...
Aug 5, 2021
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Nimble robotic arms that perform delicate surgery may be one step closer to reality
Researchers at Northeastern are working to eliminate the stiff, herky-jerky motions in robotic arms to make them graceful and deft enough to gently pick up an egg or sturdy enough to stack dinner plates. The findings could ...
Jul 26, 2021
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A helping hand for working robots
Until now, competing types of robotic hand designs offered a trade-off between strength and durability. One commonly used design, employing a rigid pin joint that mimics the mechanism in human finger joints, can lift heavy ...
May 28, 2021
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Using a virtual linkage representation algorithm to improve functionally of a robot hand
A team of researchers at Yale University has developed a new kind of algorithm to improve the functionally of a robot hand. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, the group describes their algorithm and ...
May 20, 2021 report
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A highly dexterous robot hand with a caging mechanism
A team of researchers at Yale University's Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, has developed a robot hand that employs a caging mechanism. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, ...
May 13, 2021 report
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Why robots need reflexes
Reflexes protect our bodies—for example when we pull our hand back from a hot stove. These protective mechanisms could also be useful for robots. In this interview, Prof. Sami Haddadin and Johannes Kühn of the Munich School ...
May 5, 2021
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Chitrakar: A system that can transform images of human faces into drawings
Researchers at the TCS Robotics Research Lab in India have recently developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can automatically convert an image of a person's face into a recognizable non-self-intersecting loop, ...
Jan 5, 2021 feature
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How computer simulation will accelerate development of human-interactive 'smart robots'
Jeffrey C. Trinkle has always had a keen interest in robot hands. And, though it may be a long way off, Trinkle, who has studied robotics for more than thirty years, says he's most compelled by the prospect of robots performing ...
Dec 14, 2020
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