{"id":226539,"date":"2025-12-05T00:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/classical-indian-dance-inspires-new-ways-to-teach-robots-how-to-use-their-hands"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:32:22","slug":"classical-indian-dance-inspires-new-ways-to-teach-robots-how-to-use-their-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/classical-indian-dance-inspires-new-ways-to-teach-robots-how-to-use-their-hands","title":{"rendered":"Classical Indian dance inspires new ways to teach robots how to use their hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/classical-indian-dance-inspires-new-ways-to-teach-robots-how-to-use-their-hands2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have extracted the building blocks of precise hand gestures used in the classical Indian dance form Bharatanatyam\u2014and found a richer \u201calphabet\u201d of movement compared to natural grasps. The work could improve how we teach hand movements to robots and offer humans better tools for physical therapy.<\/p>\n<p>A paper describing this work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-25563-7\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>Ramana Vinjamuri, a professor at UMBC and lead researcher on the work, has focused his lab on understanding how the brain controls complex hand movements. More than a decade ago, he and his research partners began searching for and cataloging the building blocks of hand motions, drawing on a concept called <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2025-08-alphabet-actions-human-brain.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">kinematic synergies<\/a>, in which the brain simultaneously coordinates multiple joint movements to simplify complex motions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have extracted the building blocks of precise hand gestures used in the classical Indian dance form Bharatanatyam\u2014and found a richer \u201calphabet\u201d of movement compared to natural grasps. The work could improve how we teach hand movements to robots and offer humans better tools for physical therapy. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226539","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}