Robotic hand lets people feel and move objects from really far away

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Spotted: A robotic hand gives users the ability to feel and manipulate objects from as far away as another country. The technology is a combined effort from three companies with robotics from the Shadow Robot Company, fingertip sensors from SynTouch and haptic feedback gloves by HaptX.

The sensors feel everything a finger would including force, vibration, and temperature. Combined with a dexterous anthropomorphic robotic hand, the device can move with precision. Motion data captured by HaptX Gloves helps better control remote hand movements to perform everything a real hand can. With technology like this, someone could theoretically defuse a bomb from a safe distance away.

While haptic robots have transmitted touch before, this is the first successful example of remote touch using a haptic robot hand, the company’s managing director, Rich Walker said.

The firms were brought together by Japanese airline ANA as part of its avatar technology initiative.

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Takeaway: Although not the first of its kind, the Shadow Robot Company claims it is the “world’s first telerobot to transmit touch to the operator from around the world.” Indeed, the test trial saw an operator in California manipulate a hand located in London. The fact that such operations could take place from anywhere in the world opens up many extraordinary possibilities — particularly when it comes to delicate operations that should be handled from afar such as dismantling bombs or handling objects in space.

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