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Unlike most robotic hands—which are made of rigid steel—Howe’s SDM Hand is polymer-based and has flexible joints, according to Aaron M. Dollar, who helped develop the technology as a graduate student at Harvard and is now a Yale assistant professor...
...They asked, ‘How can you make the most simple hand possible that will work?’” said Leif P. Jentoft, a graduate student in Howe’s biorobotics...
Last week, robotics firm Barrett Technology, Inc. licensed the SDM Hand for an undisclosed sum—drawn by the hope that the hand’s novel structure could find use in a wide variety of applications...
Researchers conceived of the hand in response to a common problem in earlier models. Unlike human hands, the steel versions weren’t able to adapt to unexpected variations in their environments...
...Human hands, for example, have little issue adjusting when an object—say, a mug of coffee—turns out to be smaller or in a different location than expected. But a steel hand, because of its rigidity, would likely spill the coffee or even break...