A robotic hand could revolutionize manufacturing and medicine. It developed from software using artificial intelligence will be able to learn the movements of a human hand and then reproduce. And to perform actions requiring dexterity beyond the reach of current robots. To achieve this, scientists have developed a glove connected to sensors that record the movements of a human hand. Movements filmed by eight cameras, high-resolution CCD infra-red illumination and can measure the precision of a gesture to the millimeter.

Ultimately, the robot should be used to develop an artificial lung approaching its counterpart in flesh. “A robotic hand which can perform tasks with the dexterity of a human hand is one of the holy grail of science,” said Liu Honghai, lecturer in artificial intelligence at the Institute of Industrial Research at the University of Portsmouth, behind the project with the Robotics Institute at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai.

Bringing AI and robotics
“The human movements are more rapid and effective. It’s something that we refine generation after generation, and we learn that since we are babies. The scientific development will allow us to teach robots to move in the same way,” Honghai Liu adds. Whose desire is now to arrive at strengthening relations between robotics and artificial intelligence.