Quote #4: "I've always wondered why we cant just attach an artificial hand to the end of the bone,and use the remaining muscles and tendons in the arms to operate mechanical fingers"
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.
For more information...
http://www.kevinwarwick.org/
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Martin @ Dec 19th 2005 1:06AM
Quote #4: "I've always wondered why we cant just attach an artificial hand to the end of the bone,and use the remaining muscles and tendons in the arms to operate mechanical fingers"
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.
For more information...
http://www.kevinwarwick.org/