This robotic hand is insane!

Ultima22689 · November 26, 2009, 04:13:12 PM

I thought this was pretty interesting as to how precise it's movements are, imagine how much it will improve in ten years. I know I've said it in almost every post I've posted in the science thread but with every new technology that has been popping up like weeds in the past few years it gets harder and hard to keep an open mind about the possibility of Ray Kurzweil being a loon. these technologies come and then they improve drastically in very short periods of time, if we don't get a technological singularity anytime soon I won't mind because at the rate that robotics is going and how quickly we're..well, pretty much reverse engineering the organic brain I think it is very likely I will be able to just wait it out in a synthetic body or wait around as a ghost in whatever form the internet will take in the next few decades until an artificial body is ready.

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/11/shadow-dextrous.php

joeactor · November 26, 2009, 05:45:37 PM

Hmmm...

Did the robotic hand type this post?

Not to be a weirdo, but a link would help immensely...

Dazed, but not confused,
JoeActor

Will · November 26, 2009, 10:43:39 PM

Are you saying there's an insane robotic hand on the loose?! The elves under my bed were right!!

Ultima22689 · November 27, 2009, 05:12:26 AM

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/11/shadow-dextrous.php

Sorry, I was pretty tired when I first posted. XD

Ninteen45 · November 28, 2009, 08:51:04 PM

edit your first post as well please.

Kylyssa · November 28, 2009, 10:06:37 PM

That is a pretty amazing piece of technology. Now if only they can get it to work from nerve impulses rather than by shadowing a human wearing a glove to control it with.

Ultima22689 · December 01, 2009, 11:44:34 PM

Quote from: "Kylyssa"That is a pretty amazing piece of technology. Now if only they can get it to work from nerve impulses rather than by shadowing a human wearing a glove to control it with.

I don't have a link for that but I have read that they are making breakthroughs on that and it was quite some time ago, at least a couple of years so some serious progress may have been made.

Big Mac · December 03, 2009, 12:41:13 AM

Quote from: "Ultima22689"
Quote from: "Kylyssa"That is a pretty amazing piece of technology. Now if only they can get it to work from nerve impulses rather than by shadowing a human wearing a glove to control it with.

I don't have a link for that but I have read that they are making breakthroughs on that and it was quite some time ago, at least a couple of years so some serious progress may have been made.

Here's a question I'd like to pose to you guys.

If you could afford it and it worked like it does in sci-fi movies (augmented strength, etc.) would you replace a hand or both or your other limbs?

joeactor · December 03, 2009, 01:15:58 AM

Quote from: "Big Mac"Here's a question I'd like to pose to you guys.

If you could afford it and it worked like it does in sci-fi movies (augmented strength, etc.) would you replace a hand or both or your other limbs?

I'd just replace it all...

If Steve Austin was real, he'd have ripped his arms off every time he tried to lift something really heavy.
Leave my brain and nervous system intact, and cyborg the rest... :borg2:

JoeActor

karadan · December 03, 2009, 10:33:23 AM

Well, this one is directly linked to the nervous system. It is the ultimate cybernetic badassery for anyone missing a limb. To think that, at some point in the future, it will be an advantage to have lost a limb because of the benefits artificial limbs will provide. Bring on the singularity!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/video_and_audio/8392111.stm

Ultima22689 · December 03, 2009, 04:34:29 PM

And it just keeps getting better, It keeps getting hard to be skeptic about the singularity XD

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/12/lifehand-restor.php

Renegnicat · December 04, 2009, 02:28:09 AM

Ya gotta be careful when you get your robotic limb, because at the rate things are going, it'll be obsolete in a few months. Unless they can develop a type of USB system for limbs, with software upgrades and everything.... Neat. :drool

Big Mac · December 04, 2009, 03:44:38 PM

I wouldn't really be tempted to alter my body. Mother nature seems to produce a much more efficient machine than man has. Can it feel the warmth of the sun or the cool draft on a spring day? Can it know the softness of a pet's fur coat? Can it hold another hand and feel the soft, smooth, and warm skin?

karadan · December 04, 2009, 04:21:57 PM

Quote from: "Big Mac"I wouldn't really be tempted to alter my body. Mother nature seems to produce a much more efficient machine than man has. Can it feel the warmth of the sun or the cool draft on a spring day? Can it know the softness of a pet's fur coat? Can it hold another hand and feel the soft, smooth, and warm skin?

I'm sure they'll crack stuff like that with nano tech. They'll probably surpass it as well. Imagine being able to see in the infra red and UV. Imagine being able to hear 4 times the range which we are currently able to. More efficient blood clotting, a greater ability to deal with toxins and an impenetrable immune system would be a nice bonus. There's a plethora of additions and modifications we'll eventually be able to make to the human body which far outstrips that of our current biological form.

And my favourite: drug glands. Add a couple of hundred extra glands on top of the adrenal gland and you'd have a very happy populace.

Big Mac · December 04, 2009, 07:54:03 PM

Quote from: "karadan"
Quote from: "Big Mac"I wouldn't really be tempted to alter my body. Mother nature seems to produce a much more efficient machine than man has. Can it feel the warmth of the sun or the cool draft on a spring day? Can it know the softness of a pet's fur coat? Can it hold another hand and feel the soft, smooth, and warm skin?

I'm sure they'll crack stuff like that with nano tech. They'll probably surpass it as well. Imagine being able to see in the infra red and UV. Imagine being able to hear 4 times the range which we are currently able to. More efficient blood clotting, a greater ability to deal with toxins and an impenetrable immune system would be a nice bonus. There's a plethora of additions and modifications we'll eventually be able to make to the human body which far outstrips that of our current biological form.

And my favourite: drug glands. Add a couple of hundred extra glands on top of the adrenal gland and you'd have a very happy populace.

You'd have drones and robots with no zeal, nor passion, nor capacity to be human. You'd have abominations with nothing more than wires and circuits running through them that can no more be human than a toaster can be a flower.

We humans are playing with something too powerful here. We are removing the natural order of things and trying to create our own.

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This robotic hand is insane!