A team of engineers in South Korea at Ajou University have created a highly dexterous robotic hand in which each finger has three joints, like that of the human hand, allowing for much more freedom of movement. A lot of robotics experts have expressed their admiration of the 22cm long steel and aluminium hand which weighs 1.1kg.
Robert Siddall a lecturer in robotics at Surrey University said: “ The advance here is in mechanical design. They have managed to pack all of the actuators inside the hand and still achieve a very impressive performance in terms of precision and force.”
Uikyum Kim, lead researcher in the project, told New Scientist :” The greatest strength of the developed robotic hand is that it is very easy to attach to existing commercial robot arms while having both strong grip and delicacy.”
Coming to a robotic mushroom picker near you soon, perhaps?
