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This pale, sweaty robot hand wants to take romantic walks with you – CNET
From Japan comes a soft, warm motorized hand that lets you “experience holding your girlfriend’s hand more easily than finding a girlfriend.”
“Oh, yeah, I’ll tell you somethin’ I think you’ll understand…”
Video screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET
Sometimes you just want a warm hand to hold, but there aren’t any around. At least not any connected to humans. There’s where a new robotic hand out of Japan comes in. It’s covered with a soft pliable gel to feel more like skin than machine, and when you squeeze it, it squeezes back.
Four engineers from Gifu University created the motorized device to let users “experience holding your girlfriend’s…
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