Good news everyone! German robotics researchers have built a
hyper-strong hand that can withstand hammer blows! Come and
shake the hand that will someday wring our species' collective
neck.  This hand and its high-tech robophalanges come to you
courtesy of the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at The
German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und
Raumfahrt e.V.). For those of you entertaining visions of
robopocalypse, don't get your hopes up — each of these puppies
costs somewhere between €70,000-€10,000, so any would-be
Terminators or Cylons would have to hold a lot of bake sales.
The DLR hand is one of the most durable robotic hands ever built
and was specifically built tough for jobs that might ding it up.
From IEEE Spectrum:  Watch scientists smash a super-tough
robotic hand with a hammer  The hand has the shape and size of a
human hand, with five articulated fingers powered by a web of 38
tendons, each connected to an individual motor on the forearm.
The main capability that makes the DLR