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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Re:Waldo by DMorritt · 2006-10-17 20:42 · Score: 0, Troll

build small blobs to make smallwe blobs to pick up tiny blobs ... great idea einstein ...
Moo by Chacham · 2006-10-17 23:53 · Score: 1, Troll

Isn't the smallest hand just one card? Someone played that card a long time ago.

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