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Video: Lightning-fast robot hand

Researchers from the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory at the University of Tokyo presented the video of a high-speed robotic hand at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. The laboratory’s website has many more videos related to this project, called Sensor Fusion.

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The video shows the manipulator dribbling a ping-pong ball, spinning a pen, throwing a ball, tying knots, grasping a grain of rice with tweezers, and tossing and catching a cellphone. “These videos show that high-speed sensor-motor fusion has great potential to produce new control strategy and new robotic skills,” the narrator says.