Prensilia Developing Robot Hands for Research, Prosthetics
From: IEEE Spectrum - 07/18/2013
By: Christian Cipriana

Researchers have long been trying to build robotic hands that mimic the
extraordinary capabilities of the human hand. The goal has been a device with
size and weight similar to our own hands, capable of performing multiple
grasping motions, and powered by advanced controllers. Such robot hands could
help to advance important research areas, such as prosthetics, neural
engineering, rehabilitation, humanoid robotics, and human-machine interfaces.

At the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy, a group of researchers has
been working on robotic hand technology since the early 1990s, when Prof.
Paolo Dario (a former IEEE RAS president and recipient of the Engelberger
Award) joined the university.

Read the entire article and view a video (1:57) at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/medical-robots/startup-spotlight-prensilia

Links:
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
http://www.sssup.it/

Prensilia
http://www.prensilia.com/

Azzurra
http://www.prensilia.com/index.php?q=en/node/40

SmartHand
http://www.smarthand.org/

Related:
The best five anthropomorphic robotic hands/arms
http://mindtrans.narod.ru/hands/hands.htm

Submitted by Arne Folkedal