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shared by Mars Base on 15 Mar 12 - No Cached

NASA and General Motors have come up with a robotic glove capable of giving today's astronauts and factory workers an extra-strong cyborg grip
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Robo-Glove" technology emerged when NASA and General Motors (GM) built "Robonaut 2" as a robot assistant for astronauts living aboard the space station
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glove's mechanical strength allows human wearers to grip tools longer and more comfortably
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astronaut working in a bulky, pressurized spacesuit might only need to use 10 pounds of force rather than 20 pounds to hold a tool in his or her hand.
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e robot gloves could also help factory workers on Earth do their job for longer periods with less risk of repetitive stress injury,
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Such gloves rely upon a robotic sense of touch — pressure sensors in the fingertips — to detect when a human user is grabbing an object
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wearer grasps a tool, synthetic tendons automatically retract for a firm, mechanical grip until the sensor is released
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most recent prototypes weigh just two pounds and use an off-the-shelf lithium-ion power tool battery attached to the human user's belt
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e K-Glove (Robo-Glove) is the first of what we expect to be many spinoffs derived from Robonaut 2
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shared by Mars Base on 06 Oct 13 - No Cached

t the WildCat is a brand new robot created to run fast on all types of terrain, and so far its top speed has been about 16 mph on flat terrain using both bounding and galloping gaits.
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