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May 28, 2005
Shadow Dexterous Hand
[r0x0rz] The Shadow Robot Company has created the worlds most advanced Dexterous Hand. Its driven by a block of air muscles mounted behind the hand...
Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Step Into the future] Shadow Robot Company Dexterous Hand : Gizmodo: OK - I know I would never get time to play around with it, but... I want one of these!
[Forever Geek Nerds Are For Dorks] Gadgets: ShadowDexterous Hand Category: Gadgets | Scrivs IMG The ShadowRobot Company has created the world's most advanced Dexterous Hand. It's driven by a block of air muscles mounted behind the hand on the "forearm". Pneumatic valves and initial control software are provided. The joints
[quantumBlog] Robotics: The Shadow Robot Company is now publicly offering the world’s most advanced Dexterous Hand. The Hand is equipped with 186 force sensors and joints controlled by pairs of Air Muscles that are matched in opposing directions like the human hand.
[hack a day - www.hackaday.com _] Shadows Dexterous Hand: I saw a far more interesting and budget conscious implementation of this a few years back at Iternational Science Fair. It was a dexterous hand that mimiced the action of the user wearing a nintendo power glove. The guy that did it is a buddy of mine, I will see if he has some information about it kicking around on the net somewhere. Until then, cheers.
[Hackaday.com] Shadows Dexterous Hand - hack a day - www.hackaday.com _: The Shadow Robot Company is now offering its Dexterous Hand for public sale. The joints are powered by the company’s Air Muscles, usually in pairs to provide a variable grip. The Air Muscle is a rubber tube encased in a “Chinese finger trap” style plastic webbing.
[Engadget.com] Now on sale: The Dexterous Robotic Hand - Engadget - www.engadget.com.: We’re not sure if it’s the world’s most advanced or anything, but it did beat us at Operation in a throwdown best 3-out-of-5 championship last night at Engadget HQ. El mano roboto is driven from a block of “Air Muscles” mounted on the device’s “forearm,” matched in opposing directions as with a human hand. 186 force sensors, joints and pneumatic valves are software-controlled to generate life-like movement, grip and precision manipulation. The Shadow Robot Co.
[Gizmodo.com] Shadow Robot Company Dexterous Hand : Gizmodo: select category Announcements Cellphones Deals Digital Cameras Gadgets Home Entertainment Laptops & PCs PDAs Peripherals Portable Media Press Robots Smartphones Software Wireless
[Digg.com] World's Most Dexterous Robot Hand: The Shadow Robot Company has developed the “worlds most advanced”? robotic Dexterous Hand. It is now on sale at the company website.
[Digg.com] digg / robots: Hod Lipson and colleagues at Cornell University built their self-replicating device using small mechanical building blocks that can swivel, and also attach themselves to one another using electromagnets. Robot contains a microprocessor, and they are all equipped with an identical set of instructions for replicating other robots.
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Posted at May 28, 2005 07:58 AM
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