High Speed Robotic Hands

Posted by on August 4th, 2009 in cyborging, prosthetics, robots
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All I can say is I want some.

via Beyond The Beyond | Bot Junkie

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3 Responses to “High Speed Robotic Hands”

  1. Dingo - August 5th, 2009 at 12:24 am

    Handy if you ever need a ping pong ball bounced at high speed.

    But.. the interesting thing here for mine (if you’re thinking prosthetic app, rather than freestander bot) is that what you have is a central pattern generator rather than descending or volitional command.

    The complexity in high end prosthetic arms/hands is not the engineering per se, but the interface and control. Essentially we have two schools of thought.

    1 – augmented (your term) interface wherein using tricky surgical grafting, you hijack orphan nerves to control multi degree of freedom movement.
    2 – farm out the processing to the device itself, using onboard alrogithms OR just simple dynamic relationships between the components.

    The advantage of the former is that it approaches pre-existing conditions. Of the latter, it doesnt necessarily need a zillion surgeries and as many dollars.

    Things like the footage here show the possibilities of the latter option. The trick is how do you make one device with selectable pre-existing dynamic, adaptable and useful functions?

    I propose this solution in the interim.

    http://www.mendnz.com/apps/photos/photo/next?photoid=27172508

  2. Dingo - August 5th, 2009 at 12:25 am

    Link FAIL.

    I meant this

    http://www.mendnz.com/photos/MEND%20New%20Zealand/DSCN5164.JPG

  3. m1k3y - August 5th, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    good point, thanks for dropping some science on us Dingo!

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