Robotic Hand Allows Man to Grasp Objects and “Feel” – Video

Dan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:49:41 +0000

Interesting. This robotic hand connects to nerve endings via electronic sensors. This allows the robotic hand and human to actually have some ability to feel what it is grasping. The hook in the beginning looks a little primitive. The new and improved hand appears to work much better. Mapping the nerves down to specific fingers looks like it needs more work, though. Still a great improvement over the original hook! Perhaps in the future a better brain implant will able better to relay the correct instructions from the brain to a fully functional robotic hand. This one has already been in the works for ten years! Maybe in another ten it will be perfect?

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.

Robot Follows You, Can Understand Gestures

Dan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:39:03 +0000

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]

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Robotic Hand Allows Man to Grasp Objects and “Feel” – Video

Robot Follows You, Can Understand Gestures