High Speed Robotic Hand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfdHY26E2jc

from Ishikawa Komuro Lab, University of Tokyo:

Concept

Interactions in the real world (not only physical but also social and psychological interactions) are inherently parallel phenomena. By constructing models and engineering systems that take into account such parallelism, one can expect a better understanding of the real world as well as enhanced performance of systems when dealing with practical applications. These fundamental considerations lead us to concentrate on parallel processing for sensory information. Four main related topics are currently being explored in Ishikawa-Komuro Laboratory:

1. Sensor Fusion theory and implementation in engineering systems;
2. Dynamic Image Control Dynamic control of image based on high-speed visual information processing;
3. Massively parallel image processing through a Vision Chip, which is capable of realizing high-speed real-time vision tasks on the basis of VLSI technology, and
4. Meta Perception concerns ways of capturing, manipulating and presenting information which is normally inaccessible to humans and machines.
5. (Past research on Optics in Computing: architectures that combine the advantages of optics and electronics to realize enormous computing throughput)