The MIT has developed exceptional robot hands that are hard to carry.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has constructed a new form of robotic hands that refrains from the concept of the human hand. These are so-called balloon hands.
Balloon hands for robots. Source: techcrunch
Although the hands have been copied from nature, they are not similar to the human gripping apparatus. They can lift a hundred times their own weight. They were developed in cooperation with Harvard’s Wyss Institute. The balloon is made of soft material and can thus also hold apples, for example, without crushing them.
The so-called balloon consists of a soft skeleton structure, which has been modeled on the origami figures. This structure is covered by a fabric. The idea comes from another artificial muscle project. The balloon hand is connected to a trachea, which can hold objects by negative pressure.
For example, it can lift vegetables, eggs or wine bottles. However, it does look different if the objects are too big, like a drink box. The application of these hands for robot could be the kitchen.
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