{"id":33439,"date":"2017-01-13T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/this-remarkable-robot-hand-is-worthy-of-luke-skywalker"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:03:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:03:47","slug":"this-remarkable-robot-hand-is-worthy-of-luke-skywalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/this-remarkable-robot-hand-is-worthy-of-luke-skywalker","title":{"rendered":"This Remarkable Robot Hand Is Worthy of Luke Skywalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/154571244\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of today\u2019s robot hands can perform easy tasks. They\u2019re uber-practical grippers, simple and useful. But is it really so much to ask for robotic masterworks as dextrous as Luke Skywalker\u2019s bionic hand in Star Wars? In short, yes, yes it is. It might have been a long time ago in a galaxy far far away\u2014but most Star Wars tech is beyond us.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s hard not to get in a Star Wars state of mind watching this beautiful robot hand engineered by Yale postdoc Joseph (Zhe) Xu and the University of Washington\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/homes.cs.washington.edu\/~todorov\/\">Emanuel Todorov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/02\/18\/this-remarkable-robot-hand-is-worthy-of-luke-skywalker\/?utm_content=buffer97dcb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/02\/18\/this-remarkable-robot-...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of today\u2019s robot hands can perform easy tasks. They\u2019re uber-practical grippers, simple and useful. But is it really so much to ask for robotic masterworks as dextrous as Luke Skywalker\u2019s bionic hand in Star Wars? In short, yes, yes it is. It might have been a long time ago in a galaxy far far [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6,8,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-space","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33439","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37690,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33439\/revisions\/37690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}