Word: hollerbach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graduate students work with Dr. John M. Hollerbach on perfecting a four-fingered robot hand, which he invented several years ago in collaboration with the University of Utah. "It was a 'joint' project," he quips...
...duplicating the human hand, Hollerbach says, all the myriad capabilities of flesh must be reproduced. Not only the ability to grasp, but also the ability to sense mass, configuration, texture, curvature, and temperature of various objects must be instilled in the machine. Hollerbach says that, if successful, his invention will be able to do all these and more, and will, in addition, have the same degree of mobility as a real hand...
Other scientists are more restrained in their estimates. Hollerbach says robots like the one Poggio described are probably a long way off. For the present, he calls attempting to embody all artificial intelligence research in a single robot "a waste of time," because while the research remains primarily in the theoretical and experimental stages, "the whole will be less than the sum of its parts...
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