This Is the Most Amazing Biomimetic Anthropomorphic Robot Hand We've Ever
  Seen
From: IEEE Spectrum - 02/18/2016
By: Evan Ackerman

Zhe Xu and Emanuel Todorov from the University of Washington, in Seattle,
have built a detailed and kinematically accurate biomimetic anthropomorphic
robotic hand, with the ultimate goal of replacing human hands completely.

Read the entire article and view a video (1:32) at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/medical-robots/biomimetic-anthropomorphic-robot-hand

Links:
Design of an Anthropomorphic Robotic Finger System with Biomimetic Artificial
  Joints
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~todorov/papers/XuBioRob12.pdf

The UW Hand: A Low-cost, 20-DOF Tendon-driven Hand with Fast and Compliant
  Actuation
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~vikash/Projects/Finger/AnthromorphicRoboticHand%28IJRR13%29.pdf

A Low-cost and Modular, 20-DOF Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand: Design,
  Actuation and Modeling
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~vikash/Projects/Finger/AnthromorphicRoboticHand%28humanoids13%29.pdf

Submitted by Arne Folkedal