Fwd: In Search of a Robotic Hand That Is Simple but Highly Functional

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The quest for a versatile robotic hand has produced designs that precisely
mimic the human hand and others that look more like metal clamps.
Researchers at Yale and and Harvard have been collaborating for almost a
decade on a compromise between these two methods: hands that have some of
the dexterity of human appendages but without their great complexity. The
hands they've developed don't look human, but have proved adept at gripping
and manipulating a wide variety of objects in many different settings and
tasks. In an *IEEE Spectrum* feature article, the team describes the
thinking and design strategy behind the three-digit iHY hand that they
submitted for judging at the Autonomous Robotic Manipulation competition,
sponsored by the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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