Il Futuro della Robotica sta in una mano - March 10, 2010 (UNIPI)
The future of Robotics is close at hand (UNIPI press release - ENG)
L'Universita' di Pisa da' una mano ai robot - 29 November, 2010 (UNIPI)
Multisensory integration: when correlation implies causation - 15 December, 2011 (UNIBI)
Premio ERC-Arg del Consiglio Europeo delle Ricerche ad Antonio Bicchi, Direttore del Centro “E.Piaggio”- Università di Pisa - 1 March 2011 (UNIPI)
Description of the Project
The Hand Embodied Project (overview) - December 2010 (italian) (UNIPI)
Posters
Each poster deals in some depth with a single topic, focusing on technical contents, innovation, and scientific/technological quality of THE scientific research.
The size-Mass Illusion (UNIBI)
THE First Hand (UNIPI) (see below for images and a short description)
THE Zero Hand (UNIPI)
Supramodal mirror system: how blind people “see” the actions of others (UNIPI)
A Model for the Cerebellum and the Spinal Cord (SICS)
Movement strategies in a haptic research task (UU)
The Influence of Edges as Salient Features in Haptic Shape Perception of 3D Objects (UU)
Hand movements during haptic object exploration (UU)
Synaptic integration of tactile inputs in cuneate neurons (ULUND)
Spike generation in cuneate neurons (ULUND)
Morphotron MkII (UPMC)
Tactile Language (UPMC)
Towards a New Control Space Synergy Based Grasping (NTUA)
Learning Human Grasp Strategies: Towards EMG-Control of Robot Hands (NTUA)
Pictures
In order to apply synergies in grasping experiments, UNIPI has developed a low cost prototype of robotic hand called THE First Hand: the motivation is the study of synergies from both software and control point of views. The hand was designed in order to reproduce the kinematic structure of a human hand with the same general dimensions. The hand has 5 fingers driven by tendons for a total of 16 Degree of Freedoms.
Video
THE First Hand (UNIPI)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHec2Bt-GHg&feature=related - Grasping Bottle and puring water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccr5Esn-1rw&feature=related - Grasping Ball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ7Tymj1f-E&feature=related - Grasping Syringe and Pushing It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L917Lc0Ghec&feature=related - Grasping a CD ROM
More on Centro Piaggio Channel on YouTube
Bio-Inspired Grasping (NTUA)
Grasping a Bottle (open with your browser)
Grasping a Glass (open with your browser)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KF-Ky_TY7g - Mapping synergies from human to robotic hand with dissimilar kinematic: an object oriented approach (UNISI)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5VlI8Bd6mc - Mapping Human Synergies on Robotic Modular Hand (UNISI)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fn2dObnFpw - Tele-Impedance Towards Transferring Human Impedance Regulation Skills to Robots (UNIPI)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPO6IO7Tr-Q - Tele-Impedance: Measuring and Replicating Human Arm Impedance in Tele Operated Robots (UNIPI)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqmRKqFqiok - Super Robust Robot Hand (DLR) (viewed more than 400.000 times)
This Video was featured in many blogs around the world:
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