Creating flexible robotic hands
From: Technology Review - Sep/Oct 2010 - page 52
By: Kristina Grifantini

Aaron Dollar, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Yale, has
invented a robot with a soft touch. His plastic hand is deft enough to grasp
a wide variety of objects without damaging them. What's more, it's cheaper
and requires less processing power than the metal hands typically used in
robots. 

Because the robot hand replicates the flexibility and gentleness of a human
hand, he is investigating whether it could work as a prosthetic. 

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Links:
How to Make Robotic Hands (video)
http://www.technologyreview.com/video/?vid=602

Flexible Robotic Hand Shows Off Dexterity (2007 video)
http://www.technologyreview.com/video/?vid=443

Aaron Dollar
http://www.technologyreview.com/emtech/10/speakers.aspx#Dollar

The Yale GRAB Lab
http://www.eng.yale.edu/grablab/index.html