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Researchers at Harvard and Yale have developed a robotic hand that can grasp delicate objects while relying on a minimal number of sensors and a simple algorithm. It will make things work better, without having to have a lot of sensing and computation, says Adjunct Assistant Professor Charlie Kemp of Interactive Computing. That's exactly the type of thing we want right now, because we want robots in human environments.
