Researchers at the University of Chicago, Cornell University, and iRobot Corporation, have developed a high-tech robotic hand that uses coffee grounds to grip things. That’s right, its “fingers were replaced by balloon with ground coffee that, when pressed onto an object, flows around it and conforms to its shape.” Video after the break. Click here for the first picture in the gallery.

[via Toxel]

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