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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. Re:That hardly qualifies as a 'hand' by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Maybe you need to expand your imagination more - or relax your difinition of a hand. Very few functional, as opposed to recreational, robots look humanoid. We are well evolved (but not designed!) for doing what humans do but that doesn't mean the humanoid shape is appropriate for every solution.

    I bet it doesn't say 'Danger Will Robinson either'!

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  2. Re:Deceptive video? by jellomizer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1. I would think speed. I Bet this thing runs very slowly and that took probably 10-15 minutes to do.
    2. They didn't get that part to work yet.

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