{"id":18015,"date":"2015-09-30T23:47:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T06:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/to-make-robot-hands-more-like-ours-mit-built-these-softer-smarter-fingers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:35:18","slug":"to-make-robot-hands-more-like-ours-mit-built-these-softer-smarter-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/to-make-robot-hands-more-like-ours-mit-built-these-softer-smarter-fingers","title":{"rendered":"To Make Robot Hands More Like Ours, MIT Built These Softer, Smarter Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/to-make-robot-hands-more-like-ours-mit-built-these-softer-smarter-fingers.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to forget how amazing the dexterity and anatomy of our own hands are\u2013until you learn how difficult they are to replicate for machines. MIT has <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/uh-oh-mit-developed-a-way-to-make-robotic-hands-way-mo-1722224628#_ga=1.15960246.1425775626.1429542769\">made big strides<\/a> in robotic hands this year, and now it\u2019s published a new one.<\/p>\n<p>This week at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iros2015.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"> International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems<\/a>, Bianca Homberg, Daniela Rus (the director of MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and their colleagues are showing off the latest advance in robotic digits: Modular fingers made of silicone and embedded with sensors, dexterous enough to pick up everything from soft toys to single pieces of paper without needing to be programmed to understand what it\u2019s gripping.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y5kZO8SSxVw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/to-make-robot-hands-more-like-ours-mit-built-these-sof-1733727246?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to forget how amazing the dexterity and anatomy of our own hands are\u2013until you learn how difficult they are to replicate for machines. MIT has made big strides in robotic hands this year, and now it\u2019s published a new one. This week at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Bianca Homberg, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64042,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015\/revisions\/64042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}