http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/08/the-southampton-remedi-hand/ Engadget Comments for The Southampton Remedi-Hand http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/08/the-southampton-remedi-hand/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/08/the-southampton-remedi-hand/Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/08/the-southampton-remedi-hand/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/08/the-southampton-remedi-hand/It matches my ipod nano..]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/08/the-southampton-remedi-hand/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/08/the-southampton-remedi-hand/
I love the sound of metal foot on human skull

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Hands are extremely complex things to emulate, the have to do very fast movement and be able to grip fairly strong yet they also can't crush everything they try to grab. Not only that, they have to have low power requirements and be tough enough for everyday use.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/08/the-southampton-remedi-hand/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/08/the-southampton-remedi-hand/
The research on this is still far away from rebuilding actual robotic limbs that react to the same as a real hand. But professor Kevin Warwick has done this and has managed to use the electrical signals from his own arm to control a robot arm the other side of the world over the Internet. He's even managed to have the robot feed signals back up the arm to allow him to sense presure on the robot arm.

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