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The robot thumb

Georg Martius (right), research group leader at the Max Planck Institute, and his doctoral student Huanbo Sun hold a robotic thumb that they developed together at the Institute
© Silas Stein/dpa

Georg Martius (right), research group leader at the Max Planck Institute, and his doctoral student Huanbo Sun hold a robotic thumb that they developed together at the Institute

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