Future robots hands

Habré already had a link to an article about the robotic hands of Masatoshi Ishikawa from the Ishikava Komuro Laboratory of the University of Tokyo, but they only talked about their ability to play baseball.
In fact, they have much more opportunities ...

First of all, it is not just a hand - it is a hand with eyes, sensors, which actually act as a coordinator. (Note this is a pair, sometimes one device next to a hand that constantly watches the object) And besides throwing and hitting the ball, they also know how to catch a falling object, manipulate with a stick, independently toss and catch an object that is not round, press a hand, track and grab the item being moved by a person, while adapting to a better grip. Some actions, for example, dribbling (imagine that in the future you will play basketball like this ...) or moving between the fingers of a small stick they perform simply amazingly fast!




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Here you can find more material about the work of the laboratory (there are not only robots).
Here is a link to baseball.

PS: It all reminded Tachika's claws from GitS .