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:Finally! by R2.0 · 2006-10-18 01:27 · 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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