Dextrous hands:Human, prosthetic, and robotic

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-56

  Jones, Lynette ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HAND; HAND GRIP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; LIMB PROSTHESIS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SENSATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROBOTICS; SENSATION;

EID: 0031061171     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/pres.1997.6.1.29     Document Type: Article

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