… several aspects of manipulating objects. At present, the authors believe that industrial robots
are not … By understanding the principles discussed in this book, better industrial robots are …

… But designing robotic hands with sensors and actuators similar to those of the human … differ
markedly from traditional serial robotic joint design (8). Today, robotic hands are still largely …

… Rather than classifying robots according to their physical structure, or their computational …
robots according to their models of task mechanics. Thus we distinguish a Newtonian robot, …

… and manipulation by multifingered robot hands, giving … robot hands is presented. Then
representative theoretical research results are presented in the area of grasping and manipulation…

… and synthesis of manipulation by using men, automatic systems, or robots. The problem is …
the study of a manipulation to give a rational flexible plan for a manipulative task. In particular, …

… The mechanical design of an articulated robotic hand can be performed according to many
possible design concepts and options, even if a kinematical architecture has already been …

… efforts towards dexterous robotics hands, and behavior of biological of human hands. We
survey in details issues related to biomimetic systems and robotics hands experiences. The …

… and winding road toward manipulation with multi-fingered hands. In this paper, … robotic
hands to find clues toward the future of manipulation. Research on multi-fingered robotic hands …

… manipulation tasks through targeted design of a soft robotic hand … soft robotic hands can
robustly perform in-hand manipulation in the presence of uncertainty. We first design a soft hand …

… This approach has been applied to a robotic hand powered by the same source as the
robot (46). In an ideal mechanical system, a continuously variable transmission allows the …