Japan develops five-fingered robotic hand

While this certainly isn't the first robotic-fingered hand that we've ever seen, we're always in favor of technology improving dexterity. Those smartypants at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan (aka AIST) have developed a robotic hand about the size of a human adult male's, measuring 18cm (7.08-inches) from fingertip to wrist and 8.4cm (3.3-inches) across the palm. It also has some sort of mechanism designed to "reduce backlash," which apparently means it'll get more precise control over whatever human it's throttling object it's gripping. We still don't know if that means that now these robots can sew their own gloves yet, though.

[Via Pink Tentacle]

[Bender Posted Oct 27th 2006 8:28AM]

I, for one, welcome our suprisingly dexterous robot overlords. May you always look like Johnny number 5 from Short Circuit.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2006 8:41AM]

"have developed a robotic hand about the size of a human adult male"

lol... Do you guys EVER read what you type?? :-P lol...

Anyway, this reminds me of a Dexter cartoon I saw once where he built this huge robotic hand so that his dad could win an arm wrestling contest or something.

That hand looks ready to rumble.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2006 8:58AM]

What's with the gigantic laser cannon mounted to the back of the right hand?

[Bender Posted Oct 27th 2006 9:27AM]

Derrick, its the Nintendo Power Glove of course!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2006 9:20AM]

Ambitious for sure, but maybe 5 fingers was too hard?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2006 12:08PM]

I'd try it out.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2006 9:47AM]

Transformers... more than meets the eye

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2006 9:48AM]

I totally missed the Nintendo Power Glove. I was hypnotized by the cycloptic MIB mind eraser, right in the robot's forehead!

[zuluseven Posted Oct 27th 2006 10:20AM]

Goddamn it! As if enslaving humanity wasn't enough of an insult; now we'll have to put up with our robotic overlords flipping us the bird, too. Damn you, AIST-holes!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2006 11:58AM]

Surely these robots will rise up and destroy us all !

They do look pretty cool though

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2006 5:18PM]

Is it just me, or does that robot have 4 fingers one one hand and one...claw...stub type thing? I don't see 5 fingers, and from the website, it's references as a multi-fingered hand. Maybe I'm insane.

[Zaron3d Posted Oct 27th 2006 12:51PM]

Hmmm, lifelike robotic female androids with five fingers... The future is suddenly looking a whole lot brighter.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2006 2:08PM]

"Scientists have developed a robot that once caught a fish-- THIS big..."

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2006 3:43PM]

That looks like 4 fingers to me.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 9th 2006 1:02AM]

if you think this is scary check out NASA's Robonaut.

[zuluseven Posted Oct 27th 2006 4:03PM]

A great day for science! Robotic Michael Jackson impersonators!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2006 9:19AM]

Does this mean robot wars are going to be downgraded to robot boxing? back to the basics!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 29th 2007 5:50PM]

Oh, goody. Battlestar Galactica all over again... Damned cylons...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2006 10:44PM]

wow thats jus great now this is the part where terminator come's to life, hope they have fun creating robots when they take over the world and try to play god, stupid lazy bastards.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2006 10:43PM]

japan delops a dick in their butt-hole

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2006 10:46PM]

wow thats jus great now this is the part where terminator come's to life, hope they have fun creating robots when they take over the world and try to play god, stupid lazy bastards.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2006 10:46PM]

wow thats jus great now this is the part where terminator come's to life, hope they have fun creating robots when they take over the world and try to play god, stupid lazy bastards.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 3rd 2006 9:00AM]

It's does have 4 fingers. the thumb and the 3 there. Still can flip ya off.