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Friday, July 18, 2014

#ROBOTICS: "Adding Extra Robotic Fingers Aids Human Dexterity"

Adding extra fingers, arm or self-defined extremities to humans is the next frontier for robotics: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog


MIT doctoral candidate Faye Wu shows that by following the motions of the fingers the two robotic fingers adjacent to thumb and pinky can help users perform tasks with one hand that would ordinarily take two.

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