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Re:The third thumb by Animats on Thursday July 06, 2017 @01:17PM (#14712026)
Somebody (Ross-Heim?) built a symmetrical robot hand with two thumbs and two non-thumb fingers in the 1980s. They gave the outer fingers another degree of freedom, so the outer fingers can rotate inward from the base. Back then, nobody had good control algorithms for robot hands, and it didn't work well as a waldo because humans can't do that. Worth looking at again.

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