{"id":43245,"date":"2026-01-30T18:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=43245"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:31:19","slug":"this-robot-hand-detaches-and-walks-by-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=43245","title":{"rendered":"This robot hand detaches and walks by itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Human hands are incredibly dexterous tools \u2014 but they have their limits. They are asymmetric, they have only a single thumb and, fundamentally, they\u2019re connected to our arms.<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"recommended__title u-serif\">Read the paper: A detachable crawling robotic hand<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>But none of that poses a problem for this robot claw.<\/p>\n<p>Its symmetrical design means it can seamlessly approach different tasks without having to twist to find the right angle, six-fingers mean the design can juggle multiple objects at the same time and, if needed, it can simply leave its arm behind, perfect for dangerous or hard to reach places.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human hands are incredibly dexterous tools \u2014 but they have their limits. They are asymmetric, they have only a single thumb and, fundamentally, they\u2019re connected to our arms. Read the paper: A detachable crawling robotic hand But none of that poses a problem for this robot claw. Its symmetrical design means it can seamlessly approach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[22653,2056,5464,5654],"class_list":{"0":"post-43245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-detaches","9":"tag-hand","10":"tag-robot","11":"tag-walks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}