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Read the full story R&D | Robots 07:27 PM Mark Hiratsuka • Permalink • Comments

Personally, I think Panasonic‘s DSM-Hand is cool not because it can grab a glass without either dropping it or breaking it (I can do that sometimes), but because it uses gears instead of motors to drive its joints.