A DARPA-funded robot made at the Sandia National Laboratories, the Sandia Hand may eliminate the need for human hands forever!
Well, that’s an overstatement. However, the Sandia Hand is quite useful in the fact that it is quite similar to a normal hand. Although it is comparatively inexpensive, it’s appendages move surprisingly similar to a human hand, and it even has a gel layer on the hand that mimics the grip of a human hand. But it can also do what a human hand cannot do. It can repair itself if any of the fingers fall off; the rest of the hand searches around until it finds the finger and reattaches it. It can also go places where humans might not. The Sandia Hand is designed to defuse bombs that might put human personnel in dangerous situations, but because it’s a robot, it can defuse a bomb safely and thus preserve any evidence that shows the culprit.
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