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This Superhero Robotic Hand That Can Crush Beer Cans & Delicately Hold Eggs Is So Not Chill

New Scientist- A highly dexterous, human-like robotic hand with fingertip touch sensors can delicately hold eggs, use tweezers to pick up computer chips and crush drink cans. The hand could eventually be used as a prosthetic or in robots that use artificial intelligence to manipulate objects.

Weighing 1.1 kilograms, the hand is 22 centimetres long and made of steel and aluminium. Each finger is driven by three small motors that fit within the palm and move metal parts that act like tendons around a total of 20 joints. This enables the digits to tilt sideways, to flex back and forth and to fold, giving the hand a range of movements comparable to that of a human hand.

Uikyum Kim at Ajou University in South Korea and his colleagues, who built the hand, say it can hold an egg without cracking it, pour drinks and crush aluminium cans.

The researchers also tested whether the robotic hand could use tools. They found it can: it could be programmed to hold a pair of scissors and cut paper, and also to manipulate tweezers to pick up and place a microchip on a circuit board.

What the FUCK! That is SO not chill.

I mean when are we gonna put some sort of a halt on all these robotics we're doing? I know this is in South Korea so this is a world problem and not just a domestic problem, but this needs to be addressed somehow. We need a worldwide vote of sorts that hopefully ends in a no to the advancement of robot life. It is nothing short of terrifying to see that robotic have the power to crush a beer can, hold a egg so delicately it doesn't break with it's friggen ROBOT HANDS, and not to mention can use a tweezer to pick up a goddamn microchip. 

That is nightmare fuel considering I, a human, am lucky to be able to pull off all three of those things and that robot is doing it with literal ease. Add that fuel to the fire of all those weird dog robots we see all the time on social media & next thing you know the president's gonna be a robot. We're gonna be watching robots hit baseballs & throw footballs. And worst of all our local deli workers will be robots. I'm gonna have to order a sandwich from a fucking robot one day which is something sure to keep me up at night. 

Although now I'm worried when the robots do take over they'll somehow see this article and kick my ass. I think I need to apologize to the robots.