Think how many Prime packages you could lift with these things!
Giant Mecha-Hands
Amazon CEO and tech-billionaire Jeff Bezos just demonstrated a pair of massive robotic arms and hands at this year's re:MARS conference in Las Vegas, an event hosted by Bezos himself.
.@JeffBezos tries his hand at operating @HaptX @shadowrobot hand at #reMARS exhibit - and reacts with his famous laugh: pic.twitter.com/tiV24LFDCP
— Alan Boyle (@b0yle) June 6, 2019
In a video uploaded to Twitter, Bezos can be seen operating two robotic, remote-controlled hands.
Cyborzos
Bezos manages to pick up a plastic cup and stack it on top of a tower of other cups. But the Rubik's cube next to the cups remained unsolved.
"No thank you, I can't even do that with my hands," you can hear Bezos say in the video.
Shadow Robot
The hands were built by motion tracking and telerobotics company HaptX in collaboration with robotics company Shadow Robot. Other than the robotic hands, HaptX has been developing a pair of VR gloves that gives their wearer a sense of "realistic touch."
Amazon's re:MARS conference focuses on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Some of the biggest names in tech are attending the event, including "Iron Man" actor Robert Downey Jr. and Marc Raibert, CEO of Boston Dynamics.
READ MORE: Jeff Bezos took to the controls of some 'weirdly natural' giant robot hands, but could not solve the riddle of a Rubik's cube [Business Insider]
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