The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with some robotics enthusiast, have developed a det of robotic fingers that should be able to help people have a better grip on objects like bottles and bananas. However, science seems to be not that advanced enough to roll out such innovation to get a better grip over their lives. Nevertheless, this can still become a big help in the future.
The robotic fingers were introduced earlier this week, during the Robotics: Science and Systems conference in Berkeley, California. As detailed in the video, the artificial fingers are part and parcel of a robot that one can easily attach to their wrist. They can synchronize movements very well with those of the actual fingers.
As a result, they can be worn to lift relatively big and heavy objects with just a single hand. Furthermore, developers said that they are accurate enough to help folks twist off a bottle cap, a press release on the matter at hand informs.
What’s intriguing about the robotic fingers is that one does not have to command them individually in order to make them perform different tasks with just one hand. On the contrary, the fingers are designed in such ways that they react to natural movements on their own.
Along with other scientists, Harry Asada maintains that the fingers to be precise and efficient at following natural ones around and assisting them that, in time, a wearer could think of them as part of their body.
More so provided the fact that humans are well aware of perceiving tools that they use for extensive periods as part of themselves. "Like a tool you have been using for a long time, you feel the robot as an extension of your hand," Harry Asada explains.
While it could take long before such fingers become available to the general public, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists hope that their creation will help people with less dexterity perform tasks they would otherwise have trouble carrying out.