UW Dexterous Robot Hand with Vikash Kumar (IMAGE)

University of Washington

UW Dexterous Robot Hand with Vikash Kumar

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UW computer science and engineering doctoral student Vikash Kumar developed this robot hand actuated with a custom pneumatic system. It has 40 tendons, 24 joints, more than 130 sensors and can move faster than a human hand.

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