This three-fingered robot hand makes use of serial bus servos

Reading Time: 2 minutesA small startup called K-Scale Labs is in the process of developing an affordable, open-source humanoid robot and Mike Rigsby wanted to build a compatible hand. This three-fingered robot hand is the result, and it makes use of serial bus servos from Waveshare. Most Arduino users are familiar with full-duplex serial communication, which requires two […]

You Won’t Believe How Scientists Recreated the Sense of Touch

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou read that right, a team of University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University researchers successfully performed a series of experiments that showed they could send electrical signals directly to the brains of monkeys and that they were able to interpret the signals as touches on different parts of their hands. Plus, “another series of […]