World's Smallest Robotic Hand

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 17, 2006 @07:43PM 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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OT: Video? by pembo13 · 2006-10-17 20:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I thought GIFs were considered to be animations.

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Re:Waldo by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-17 21:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You're right... all these replies and no sign of Waldo...

Honestly people, Where's Waldo?
In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-17 23:10 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In Soviet Russia, small robotic hand gets you!!
Re:Who cares? by Jedyte · 2006-10-17 23:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I want to see the world largest robotic foot!