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This Is What Our Thumbs Say About Our Brains, in a Pattern That Holds True for Other Primates

As the sole surviving human species, our big brains and nimble hands have always made us feel special, compared to our extinct relatives. Now, new research has associated bigger brains with longer ...
WRAL

How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can

A robotic hand? Four autonomous fingers and a thumb that can do anything your own flesh and blood can do? That is still the stuff of fantasy. But inside the world’s top artificial intelligence labs, ...
Business Wire

NTHU Researchers Take Robotics to the Next Level

HSINCHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Although widely used in manufacturing, robots require much more agility for use in nursing and rehabilitation. With this in mind, an interdisciplinary research team ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Is What Our Thumbs Say About Our Brains, in a Pattern That Holds True for Other Primates

Researchers find that long thumbs in primates are consistently associated with big brains. Freepik As the sole surviving human species, our big brains and nimble hands have always made us feel special ...