[Edwood]

Yep. One more step closer to armageddon.......

http://www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml

Video Here.

-Ed

 

[Feanor]

Come now, The SHADOW ROBOT COMPANY??

What kind of a name is that?

 

[chadbang]

Looks FANTASTIC, but it doesn't seem to function much more fluidly than the animatronic stuff Disney was doing 30 years ago. And all those wires! I bet you need the entire Jim Henson crew to make it work. Oh, I see its run by a computer. But here's the reason it looks fake "Speed: About half speed of a human." Nice looking, but junk.

 

[Born2bwire]

Great stuff, and it only costs 85K Euros, 110K if you want the tactile sensing. Seriously though, they say that they can pretty much replicate the same degrees of freedom of a human hand and the system is the same size as the real hand and forearm with the exception of the base. The dexterity of the hand is pretty amazing, it'll be very interesting to see what the future generations will be like.

 

[wrhawk]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Feanor Come now, The SHADOW ROBOT COMPANY?? What kind of a name is that?

One perfectly suited for ushering in the coming era of animatronic global domination.

 

[MD1032]

So you could attach this to someone's amputated arm or something?

 

[D-EJ915]

Sweet, you'd be the only person on earth with a freaking BLUE hand!! That thing's a crazy mofo, you could pwn people in arm wrestling...just crush their hand!

 

[fr4c]

technology like this would one day come very useful in the medical field, especially for replacing human limbs, etc. awesome indeed.

 

[XxATOLxX]

I can only think of 1 use for it and its only gonna be on days I feel lazy.

 

[frankcent]

COOL!
by the way, I cant even do some movements the robotic hand was doing with the smallest finger in the movie

 

[oneeyedhobbit]

Quote:

Originally Posted by XxATOLxX I can only think of 1 use for it and its only gonna be on days I feel lazy.

Touché.

 

[zbuddah]

robotic hand.... & self replication = armageddon

Self replicating bot

 

[Onix]

Quote:

Originally Posted by chadbang Looks FANTASTIC, but it doesn't seem to function much more fluidly than the animatronic stuff Disney was doing 30 years ago. And all those wires! I bet you need the entire Jim Henson crew to make it work. Oh, I see its run by a computer. But here's the reason it looks fake "Speed: About half speed of a human." Nice looking, but junk.

Actually, I think people working in the special effects field should really get together with experts on bionics. I am pretty sure they could come up with amazing stuff.