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Professor Hogan and Dr. Hermano Igo Krebs designed the Anklebot to train and strengthen lower-extremity muscles in a “cooperative” fashion, sensing a person’s ankle strength and adjusting its force accordingly.
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All you have to do is think about it. Or at least that’s what it would look like to someone watching you use the robotic finger system that PhD student Faye Wu is designing in Professor Harry Asada’s lab.
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Professor Alberto Rodriguez talks shop about designing a dexterous robot that can pick up an object from a group of objects and his focus on the “last inch.”
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