Intelligent Software Helps Build Perfect Robotic Hand
From: Innovations Report - 11/29/2007
By: Lisa Egan

Researchers in Portsmouth and Shanghai plan to use artificial intelligence to
teach a robotic glove to move in the same dexterous manner as a human hand. A
cyberglove will learn human hand movements from software that is being
developed by Dr. Honghai Liu, senior lecturer at the University of
Portsmouth's Institute of Industrial Research, and professor Xiangyang Zhu
from the Robotics Institute at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. The device
makes use of motion capture, sensor, and infrared illumination camera
technology to capture data, and has a measurement accuracy of up to a few
millimeters. The artificial intelligence and robotics experts believe their
research could ultimately result in the development of the perfect artificial
limb. "Humans move efficiently and effectively in a continuous flowing
motion, something we have perfected over generations of evolution and which
we all learn to do as babies," Zhu says. "Developments in science mean we
will teach robots to move in the same way."  

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http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/informationstechnologie/bericht-99200.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071130231044.htm

Honghai Liu
http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~liuh/