To touch, or not to touch. For this robot, the answer is the former, always the former. A hand with three digits, the robot designed by Achint Aggarwal and his team at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Bremen lives to examine the depths of the ocean by touch.
With underwater visibility hampered by impurities and/or sediments in the water, objects and extremely difficult to locate and manipulate. To look past the waters’ impurities, Aggarwal’s team made the hand, which could be attached to an undersea vehicle. Built-in sensors in the hand can track changes in texture, movement, and pressures as it moves around. It can then use that information to make a map of the object and make a guess about what it might be, with 90% accuracy.
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