Posted 02.13.2012 at 12:55 pm
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Lego Hand
Max Shepherd via YouTube
A robotic hand made entirely of Legos is one of the most realistic robo-hands we have seen, matching the entire range of motion of a real one. It moves pretty slowly, but that's OK — slow and steady wins the race, and pours the drink without splashing.
Builder Max Shepherd used Lego motors and pneumatics to move the arm, which he says can only lift a couple of pounds. The goal was to mimic the full range of motion of a human hand, not to lift tons of weight. It's an impressive show of what can be done with some mad Lego skills.
The softest grippy hands we have seen don't look human at all, so this is quite a feat. Watch the fingers curl softly around a water bottle or other object.
[Tinkernology via Engadget]
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I see a future TV commercial coming from this robot.
The scene opens up with the robot arm reaching towards a toaster, grabbing a waffle, next we here “LEGO MY EGO!”
Snort, I just crack me up, lol!
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wow man!
1-entireley out of lego? what about the electric cables and wiering?
2- I love lego, its soo simple and making an android with them seems reasonable since they are entirely modular
3- well i have no third point. its just customary to have 3 points
@ space
1-u beat me to the first post, congrats
2- u soo funny man
3-....
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@Midoman
You must not be up to date with Legos' tech products. Lego motors and sensors have been around over 10 years now. Part of the Mindstorms product line. There's an actual module that you can program.
Give this guy an engineering job if he doesn't have one already. Very cool!
Yeah some of the greatest inventions and inovations come out of peoples "garages" grants should be given to people like this.