In a project supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, researchers from Cornell University, University of Chicago and iRobot have bypassed traditional designs based around the human hand and fingers, and created a versatile gripper using ground coffee and…
Day: November 2, 2010
UN Special Adviser Calls for Greater Paralympic Media Coverage
Wilfried Lemke Wilfried Lemke, the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, has called on the worldwide media to give greater coverage to Paralympic sports and other sports for people with disabilities.…
Colorado Teen Wins Otto Bock Socket Art Contest
Cali Overcast of Fountain, Colo., was only 4 years old when the 9/11 terrorist attacks took place, but she has never forgotten the impact it had on her young life. “I remember how badly I felt that all of those…