The human hand is undeniably a work of wonder. Its layout and suite of design features enable mankind,the only possessors of this particular arrangement of bones, tendons, muscles, and nerves,to type faster than 60 words per minute or swing a heavy hammer while holding a delicate potato chip. What would it take to duplicate a human hand?
A series of robotic facsimiles of human hands have been developed, but none have approached the range of functions of the original. The latest and most advanced robot hand was recently described in the journal Smart Materials and Structures by two Virginia Polytechnic researchers.1 Their invention was supposedly optimized “to achieve near-human appearance and performance,” according to a description on Physorg.com.2 But how close was it really?
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