ARISTO Hand Gives Robots a Human Touch
Humanoid robots are finally starting to become remarkably capable — at least in some ways. If you’ve seen any demos in the past few years, you’ll know that they can dance, flip, and fold laundry with the best of them. But behind those perfectly edited video clips, there is a nasty little secret hiding. Most robots are absolute klutzes when they work with their hands. If they aren’t dropping or crushing something, they are fumbling around blindly because they lack a human-like sense of touch.
A group of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin is working to make robots much more dexterous than existing technologies permit. They have developed what they call ARISTO Hand, a tendon-driven robotic hand that is packed with a novel assortment of sensors. These sensors make ARISTO Hand exceptionally good at the sort of fine-grained manipulation tasks that robots typically struggle with.
The...
Copyright of this story solely belongs to hackster.io. To see the full text click HERE
