7 Finger Robot 

The woman talking sounds like a mature version of BMO from Adventure Time :D

This is pretty freaking cool. What a great idea and mechanism! MIT is a pretty impressive place.

Very cool idea. I'm sure that anyone who lost a hand would love this added versatility. Obviously this is "just" a proof of concept prototype, but looks awesome.

Where is my spiderman octopus arms?

Wearing that glove would drive my Hyper Sensitivity crazy.

I broke my wrist some months ago, when it was still healing, I would have given anything for this thing :D It's really hard when living alone and needing to do stuff with one hand for over a month :I Awesome!

Tentacles is the next step >.>

Good invention Faye

Amusing technology.

Add fingers on top of our fingers, so that we can type faster on the keyboard. Perhaps a mouse that can be controlled with the foot or knee. A set of eyes that look to other ways, that are displayed to us, perhaps using Glass. So to give us a greater field of vision. There could also be an option of zooming in with a gyroscope checking the tilt of the head. This could be 3D printed, so that it's available and improved by many around the world. The biggest profit that I can see is parallelization, doing many jobs at the same time. A strong pair of small pinching and opening fingers, so that one can open something that's hard to open, like a window. Or when squeezing something that needs more than human strength. A pair of closer fingers, so that one can cut hair with just one hand instead of two. Pinching the hair and cutting. The tongue would be a good output of movement, since it's very flexible, but only used when eating.

Information technology has profoundly compounded human mental capacity, it is time for robotics to evolve human kinetic limits to unprecedented levels.

we will see Dr Octopus very soon

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This is awesome. My wife lost use of one hand because of a stroke and I would be very interested on this 7 finger robot. How can I contact you guys?

This is just the beginning.

Awesome i like the technology

Thats why God gave us two hands!

If the patients' fingers have lost motion, why do you still use their fingers to control the extra fingers??? doesn't make sense.

The hand itself is not useful yet. It could at most be a simplification of what it could be. Rather than telling us what the hand right now could be used for, tell us what are its potentials for development instead. It would be so much more exhilarating.

Man, that must be the most useful thing ever. I mean i would definitely wear a robot on my wrist the entire day to open a envelope with one hand!.

I scratch head (actually forehead only) - to think - what use is this? Eureka - if 24 giant fingers scratch - whole head - maybe I could think of a good idea

so we should just get rid of one of our hands?

I am also an amputee from the wrist down due to an industrial accident 30+ years ago and would like to know where can I get a 3D prosthetic hand I am presently using a 3finger movement prosthetic hand with limited movements . Hope somebody can provide me with more information Thanks

good work

that is the why , human have two hands

Looks cool

Maybe we should focus on making a perfect arm or leg prosthetic before we start adding more limbs than we originally have.

I tried this out, gave my girlfriend "the shocker"... Her funeral is Friday.

Is it possible to know how the hand is moving by just " measuring/analysing" the nerves , lets say...In the shouder?

two in the pink, five in the poo

И для чего нужна эта штука?

She probably wished it vibrate...

I wish I had a 3rd arm

I wanted robot finger

Prepare for doc oc

Can you guys approve my college application? I can assure you I have better ideas XD

Skynet !!

i can open bottled with one hand tho..

Allright guys lets find a real job.

only the rich could afford it

Oh good, it can help the elderly become more independent? So all we have to do is teach an elderly, technologically challenged man/woman how to use this bionic arm, I can't believe it's been so simple all this time.

Just a reality check here dude, you have *only 3 inputs*. Synergy? nope. The result would be better by simply averaging those 3 inputs together, and the video didn't show otherwise. If you used a proper hand tracking glove to track more than 3 points _(ideally 20+, but wow please get it to at least 5)_, that would have been of interest. My only guess is that you indeed tried to use a proper hand tracking glove _(coz why on earth wouldn't you? MIT is awash with them)_, but your algorithms didn't like the data, and you had to fall back to only 3 axis to meet a publication deadline. Yes? THE NINTENDO POWERGLOVE FROM 1989 HAD MORE DEGREES OF FREEDOM THAN THIS SETUP (Albeit for more than 2-bits per finger you'd want to tap the fingers directly. Still... MIT hello?! Grab a $10 P5 Glove or something.)

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Lol who cares?

If this is the best M.I.T. can do then our future is looking bleak. I could go out to the shed and make this from old computer parts. I've seen better stuff made with Lego. I expected better from M.I.T.....

laaaaag

Shit looks weird as fuck.

Is this a joke?

Hahahahahahaahahashahahahaahahaha was this a parody? The soda and envelope made it look like a parody.

lol It's too bulky and unpractical.

That robot is boring

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High school science project :/

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The most pointless invention ever 😐