Robot Hands That Can Pick Up Anything

By Dane Carlson on March 15, 2013 in Inventions

Robot Hand

Building a robot that can pick up random items with the dexterity of the human hand is surprisingly difficult and expensive.

A team from the Cornell Creative Machine Labs solved both of these problems by creating robotic hands from two items you probably have in your home: a balloon and ground coffee. Watch the video below to see how it works.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.