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The company's first product, the "Clone Hand," is a robotic hand with artificial muscles and bones that behaves like a human ...

A key innovation in this research was the development of a multichannel soft robotic armband designed ... three critical points corresponding to the thumb, index and little fingers, effectively ...

The thumb has an extra degree of freedom for fine manipulation ... It provides a promising base for a future series of complex multisensory robot hands.