THIS ROBOT HAND WALKS TO THE KEYBOARD

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A hand normally needs an arm to carry it somewhere. ETH Zurich researchers have demonstrated a robot hand that carries itself: its fingers serve as legs.

According to UPI, the team taught it through practice in a computer simulation rather than programming every movement individually. Movements that helped it walk and balance guided the learning.

That matters because fingers have different lengths: coordinating them is not like marching identical legs.

The team's videos show the hand walking on different surfaces, getting upright after falling, pushing objects and using a computer keyboard. The work is described in a preprint, not a peer-reviewed study.

Naturally, my imaginary office replacement has now eliminated the expense of bringing an entire employee to the keyboard. No torso.

No trousers. Just the part that answers emails.

That is the joke, not a reported hiring plan.

The useful idea is adaptability: giving a robot another way to use the parts it already has. Robert Katzschmann suggests a small hand could reach confined spaces, possibly disaster spaces.

That is a research ambition, not a rescue already performed or a product ready to buy.

The team compared it to Thing from The Addams Family. I am more concerned about the version that crawls over to my desk and accepts another meeting.

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