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Engineers drop the little finger after one-day experiment
Original: «От мизинца инженер:ки решили отказаться после эксперимента: сотрудни:цы на один день скрепили себе мизинцы с безымянным
Robotics engineers have decided against adding a fifth finger to a robotic hand after running an unusual experiment: team members taped their little fingers to their ring fingers for a day and noted which everyday actions became impossible. They concluded that the extra finger's benefits did not justify the added complexity of building and controlling it.
Why now: The counterintuitive finding that humans function well without a fully independent little finger challenges assumptions in robotic hand design.
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