Robot hand with sense of touch lets humans feel delicate objects remotely
Tasks like bomb disposal, space exploration and construction could be made safer for humans using this dextrous robot hand, which can transmit feeling of touch.
The hand combines technologies from three companies ? robotics by the Shadow Robot Company, tactile fingertip sensors from SynTouch and haptic feedback gloves from HaptX.
The robot hand allows people to feel items remotely
It means that when a remote human operator directs the robot to pick up a ball, they can feel the sensation of touching the object under their fingertips in real time.
An operator based in California did just that with a robot hand situated in London, in a demonstration given by the three companies. They also made the robot spoon food from a bowl, type "Hello, world!" into a computer and play the notoriously delicate game of Jenga. The hand was created by the Shadow Robot Company, SynTouch and HaptX
The Shadow Robot Company believes that while haptic robots have had several incarnations over the years, this is the first time the technology has been used in this particular way.
"Successful demonstrations of haptic robots transmitting touch in previous eras have been achieved but this is the first time it's been done using a haptic robot hand," the company's managing director, Rich Walker, told Dezeen.
It can carry out extremely intricate tasks
"There are many challenges in the development of any haptic device including high accuracy, high precision control of force and pos...
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