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World's Smallest Robotic Hand

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the smell-like-cabbage dept.

BuzzSkyline writes "The world's smallest robotic hand has been built by Yen-Wen Lu and Chang-Jin "CJ" Kim at UCLA's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. The microhand can make a fist that can grasp objects smaller than a millimeter across. Check out the freaky video on the researchers' website of the microhand grabbing a blob that looks like a fish egg. The tiny hand is made of inert materials, making it ideal for handling gooey biological samples. Lu and Kim describe their microhand in a paper published October 16 in the journal Applied Physics Letters."

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  1. Oblig... by jginspace · · Score: 1, Funny

    Could be very handy.

    1. Re:Oblig... by dryekindrew · · Score: 1, Funny

      You've gotta hand it to these guys - that's freakin awesome.

    2. Re:Oblig... by gykh · · Score: 2, Funny
      Could be very handy.

      Just perfect for the digital age.

    3. Re:Oblig... by Kredal · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yup, they'll be able to finger it out.

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  2. Finally! by Frogbert · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally something small enough to massage my... never mind.

    1. Re:Finally! by R2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      DAMN IT! Dammit, dammit,dammit,dammit,dammit!

      I HATE whn someone steals my jokes.

      Do you perhaps live within 70 miles of me? Can I borrow a pickaxe handle?

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      "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
  3. Yes, but... by salec · · Score: 4, Funny

    can it play the world's smallest violin?

  4. What is it with... by pookemon · · Score: 1, Funny

    all these "Creepy" videos lately?

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    1. Re:What is it with... by pookemon · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh well then - a creepy gif is something different... ;)

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  5. not much to do by Rulke · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know, looks like it can't do much more then grab and hold.. Maybe build it into traps for rats and mice... the hand would grab their balls... and neuter them. Would that be considered a humane trap? atleast they aren't killed :)

  6. Re:In the real world.... by BuzzSkyline · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsurgery? Lab-on-a-chip processing? Little assembly lines where the robot hand gently grabs an ovum, fertilizes it with the help of another little hand, and moves it to the nursery where we grow clones to take over the world? Just a thought.

  7. Finally! by dangitman · · Score: 1, Funny

    Midgets can now get the handjobs they so desperately need.

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  8. Who cares? by Symp0sium · · Score: 2, Funny

    I want to see the worlds smallest robotic foot!

  9. Re:Waldo by DMorritt · · Score: 2, Funny

    found ... oh no wait thats not him ...