Clone Robotics develops Humanoid Robotic Arm
Clone Robotics plans to equip future robots with flexible joints to ensure a range of motion as close to that of humans. At such a level that this start-up claims to have succeeded in developing the natural movements of the wrist and the rotary movements of the thumb!
The gestures of the gray-gloved hand look strangely familiar, but do you still feel a certain embarrassment when you watch it? It’s normal, this is an ultra-realistic robotic hand designed to reproduce the movements of the human body. A company intends to deliver the last piece that was missing in the design of intelligent Android robots.
The company Clone Robotics, based between the United States and Poland, aims to create biometic robotic components, that is to say, which function and resemble elements of the human body as much as possible. The robotic hand is capable of grasping various everyday objects, which requires different levels of precision. Version 15 of the Clone Hand, visible from 28 seconds, incorporates 16 new muscles responsible for thumb range of motion.
However, the prototype used for demonstrations of wrist capabilities still appears to use a hydraulic pump, as these new artificial muscles likely still need refinement. The hand is equipped with sensors that measure the angles and speed of movement of each joint, as well as the pressure exerted on the muscles, allowing clone engineers to carefully control the roughly 36 muscles in the machine. The latter can thus perform organic gestures such as turning the thumb or lateral movements of the fingers and shows great flexibility at wrist level.
What can this technology be used for?
Clone Robotics plans to use these innovative hands in conjunction with Clone Torso, the already-in-development humanoid torso to which the arms attach and which would have 124 artificial muscles.
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