ReviewPhysics of life reviews2016
Hand synergies: Integration of robotics and neuroscience for understanding the control of biological and artificial hands.
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- A Lightweight and Versatile Prosthetic Hand for Daily Grasping.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Synergies and other behaviors in the context of the referent control theory of action and perception.Experimental brain research · 2025Review
- Reconstructing hand gestures with synergies extracted from dance movements.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Decoding multi-joint hand movements from brain signals by learning a synergy-based neural manifold.Patterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- An Adaptive Grasping Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Prosthetic Hand with a Rigid-Flexible Coupling Structure.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Investigating the relationships between anthropometric characteristics, grip strength, hand flexibility and hand performance in woodcarvers.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Spatially distributed biomimetic compliance enables robust anthropomorphic robotic manipulation.Communications engineering · 2025Article
- Explaining human motor coordination via the synergy expansion hypothesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Innovative Bionics Product Life-Cycle Management Methodology Framework with Built-In Reverse Biomimetics: From Inception to Clinical Validation.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Next-Generation Neurotechnologies Inspired by Motor Primitive Model for Restoring Human Natural Movement.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Review
- Interactive imitation learning for dexterous robotic manipulation: challenges and perspectives-a survey.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Review
- Synergistic grasp analysis: A cross-sectional exploration using a multi-sensory data glove.Wearable technologies · 2025Article
- Design of a Wearable Exoskeleton Piano Practice Aid Based on Multi-Domain Mapping and Top-Down Process Model.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Quantification of finger grasps during activities of daily life using convolutional neural networks: A pilot study.Healthcare technology letters · 2024Article
- Stretchable glove for accurate and robust hand pose reconstruction based on comprehensive motion data.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Evolution, biomechanics, and neurobiology converge to explain selective finger motor control.Physiological reviews · 2024Review
- Rewiring the evolution of the human hand: How the embodiment of a virtual bionic tool improves behavior.iScience · 2024Article
- Study on Gesture Recognition Method with Two-Stream Residual Network Fusing sEMG Signals and Acceleration Signals.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The benefit of knowledge: postural response modulation by foreknowledge of equilibrium perturbation in an upper limb task.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- Dissecting muscle synergies in the task space.eLife · 2024Article
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Abstract
The term 'synergy' - from the Greek synergia - means 'working together'. The concept of multiple elements working together towards a common goal has been extensively used in neuroscience to develop theoretical frameworks, experimental approaches, and analytical techniques to understand neural control of movement, and for applications for neuro-rehabilitation. In the past decade, roboticists have successfully applied the framework of synergies to create novel design and control concepts for artificial hands, i.e., robotic hands and prostheses. At the same time, robotic research on the sensorimotor integration underlying the control and sensing of artificial hands has inspired new research approaches in neuroscience, and has provided useful instruments for novel experiments. The ambitious goal of integrating expertise and research approaches in robotics and neuroscience to study the properties and applications of the concept of synergies is generating a number of multidisciplinary cooperative projects, among which the recently finished 4-year European project "The Hand Embodied" (THE). This paper reviews the main insights provided by this framework. Specifically, we provide an overview of neuroscientific bases of hand synergies and introduce how robotics has leveraged the insights from neuroscience for innovative design in hardware and controllers for biomedical engineering applications, including myoelectric hand prostheses, devices for haptics research, and wearable sensing of human hand kinematics. The review also emphasizes how this multidisciplinary collaboration has generated new ways to conceptualize a synergy-based approach for robotics, and provides guidelines and principles for analyzing human behavior and synthesizing artificial robotic systems based on a theory of synergies.
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