This Disembodied Hand Is All the Robot You Need

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by The Robot Report / IEEE Spectrum Robotics at 08 Oct, 12:00 UTC

A hand attached to the end of an arm is a given for most humans, but what if robots didn’t have to play by the same rules as we do? Researchers from ETH Zurich have turned an off-the-shelf robotic hand into a completely self-contained robot that walks on its fingertips while using those same…