The three - fingered
robotic hand developed by Ishikawa Oku's lab at the University of Tokyo, Japan, has a dirty secret: it cheats.
Not exact matches
At the core of this project is a cutting - edge
robotic hand and arm
developed in the BioRobotics Laboratory in FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science.
In addition to the
robotics leg, Goldfarb's Center for Intelligent Mechatronics has
developed an advanced exoskeleton that allows paraplegics to stand up and walk, which led Popular Mechanics magazine to name him as one of the 10 innovators who changed the world in 2013, and a
robotic hand with a dexterity that approaches that of the human
hand.
Efforts to
develop affordable functional prosthetics, for users in
developing countries for example, sometimes dress up the
robotics with a rubberized
hand for a more «natural» look, but they may not be doing the users a favor unless the result looks and moves very realistically.
Humans doing difficult, repetitive tasks or those who need assistance with movement may soon get a helping
hand — literally — thanks to
robotic technology
developed to serve astronauts in space.
Although built by Boston Dynamics, the ATLAS project is unique in that multiple
robotics teams around the nation can get their
hands on one to test the extent of their programming skills in preparation for the DARPA
Robotics Challenge, which «aims to
develop semi-autonomous ground robots that can do «complex tasks in dangerous, degraded, human - engineered environments.
Furthermore, this format of applied professional development allowed the staff to work with the program
hands - on, co-
develop the curriculum, and further
develop their own style of teaching
robotics.