{"id":246857,"date":"2026-11-08T06:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T12:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/this-robotic-hand-walks-on-its-fingers-like-thing-from-the-addams-family-and-its-creepy-as-heck"},"modified":"2026-11-08T06:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T12:07:20","slug":"this-robotic-hand-walks-on-its-fingers-like-thing-from-the-addams-family-and-its-creepy-as-heck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/this-robotic-hand-walks-on-its-fingers-like-thing-from-the-addams-family-and-its-creepy-as-heck","title":{"rendered":"This Robotic Hand Walks on Its Fingers Like Thing From The Addams Family, And It\u2019s Creepy as Heck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watching a hand walk away on its fingers brings to mind Thing from <em>The Addams Family<\/em>. Heidi Klum brought a gruesome version to life this Halloween with her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/heidi-klum-halloween-2026-costume-hand\/\">giant severed-hand costume<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a Swiss robotics lab, a mechanical hand is taking its own steps toward something more useful.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at ETH Zurich taught it to walk on its fingertips, get upright after a fall, and press keyboard keys while balancing on its other fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching a hand walk away on its fingers brings to mind Thing from The Addams Family. Heidi Klum brought a gruesome version to life this Halloween with her giant severed-hand costume. In a Swiss robotics lab, a mechanical hand is taking its own steps toward something more useful. Researchers at ETH Zurich taught it to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246857","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}