A 15-year-old new student at Hendersonville High School outside of Nashville, Tennessee, is still in disbelief at how his classmates created a prosthetic robotic hand for him.
Machines can defeat the finest chess player in the world, but robots cannot manage a chess piece like a baby. Artificial grippers lack the precise tactile sense of the human fingertip, which is utilized to guide our hands as humans pick up and handle items, which contributes to their lack of dexterity.