Wearable Robot Adds Two Fingers To Your Hand

rtoz writes: Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of the human hand. This wrist-wearable robot adds two extra fingers that respond to movements in the wearer's hand. The robotic fingers are on either side of the hand — one outside the thumb, and the other outside the little finger. A control algorithm enables it to move in sync with the wearer's fingers to grasp objects of various shapes and sizes. With the assistance of these extra fingers, the user can grasp objects that are usually too difficult to pick up and manipulate with a single hand.

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meh

[globaljustin]

this looks like good engineering work...really...I read TFA...but the *design* and *concept* are, to me, kind of dumb

dumb...as in it really feels like they were spitballing ideas and said "hey, why not extra fingers?"

IMHO this is an example of robotics continuing to spin its wheels...

it's a *power* and *material science* game now...we have the connectivity with the brain now...we have stacks of ideas...who can't imagine all kinds of applications for robotics?

now it's just about the power source and making it small enough yet sturdy