Remember that set of extra arms MIT came up with, mounted on your shoulders? Well, they’ve been joined by something dubbed the “seven-finger robot”—which is actually just a glove that comes attached with two additional robotic fingers.
These robo-fingers—or, these supernumerary robotic digits, if you want to get all technical—are the invention of MIT researcher Faye Wu and company, who hope that the extra fingers will allow humanity to accomplish numerous task more quickly and with more ease.
The two extra fingers enhance our hands’ ability to grasp objects, which would free up our natural digits for other parts of whatever we’re trying to accomplish. Opening a jar or stirring a coffee cup one-handed, like above, would be much , much easier with some extra fingers.
The device is strapped around one of your wrists, where the SR fingers can draw adjacent to your pinky and your thumb, respectively. The extra fingers are formed from actuators, linked together in order to mimic both the grasping motion and force of regular human fingers. Take a look:
Definitely an intriguing invention, and one that could definitely prove useful–especially if you combine it with those extra arms.
Source Gizmodo
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