{"id":208065,"date":"2025-03-07T12:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/feeling-is-believing-bionic-hand-knows-what-its-touching-grasps-like-a-human"},"modified":"2025-03-07T12:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:15:55","slug":"feeling-is-believing-bionic-hand-knows-what-its-touching-grasps-like-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/feeling-is-believing-bionic-hand-knows-what-its-touching-grasps-like-a-human","title":{"rendered":"Feeling is believing: Bionic hand \u2018knows\u2019 what it\u2019s touching, grasps like a human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/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\/OaG68jbZC1U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds.<\/p>\n<p>The system\u2019s hybrid design is a first for robotic hands, which have typically been too rigid or too soft to replicate a human\u2019s touch when handling objects of varying textures and materials. The innovation offers a promising solution for people with hand loss and could improve how robotic arms interact with their environment.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the device <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adr9300\" target=\"_blank\">appear<\/a> in Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds. The system\u2019s hybrid design is a first for robotic hands, which have typically been too rigid or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208065","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}