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A team of scientists from Italy and Sweden has developed what is believed to be the first artificial hand that has feeling. It has been attached to the arm of a 22-year-old man who lost his own hand through cancer. Researchers say it works by connecting human nerve endings with tiny electronic sensors.

Unfortunately, the Blast Studio is only operational from 12am to 12pm, London time. If the devices aren’t active, you can still take a look around. The camera feeds appear to be live 24/7.

The BBC Blast Studio allows users to interact with real-time robotic devices over the web.

The Blast Studio is a brand new online and real time art installation allowing you to dabble in your own creativity. It’s been designed to give you an opportunity to explore the creative artist within you and add your mark to a unique art installation that will be created together over the next four weeks.

Housed in the Topolski studio at London’s Southbank Centre, this great new initiative lets you take control of four machines. Each machine will provide you with the tools to remotely control how you paint and design this space. Control from a choice of a cool glue gun, paint pellet machine, printer or hanging light strips all directed from your computer.

The Blast Studio will only be running until June 9th. Have fun!
[Blast Studio]

Robot Understands Human Gestures

This robot from Brown University can read human gestures.

While most of us may only think about futuristic robots interacting with us through speech, researchers at Brown have created a robot which responds to human gestures. These non-verbal commands include arm signals which indicate “follow,” “halt,” “wait” and “door breach.”

The robot also understands verbal commands, and has a variety of other sensors onboard.

As part of testing their new robotics project, this new robot was commanded to go through doors, comeback, turn, and follow people. A major goal of the project is to create a robot which follows a person like a shadow, unobtrusively waiting for a task.

[Science Daily]