Sentence examples for pincer hand from inspiring English sources

One of the earliest systems to integrate perception and action was FREDDY, a stationary robot with a moving television eye and a pincer hand, constructed at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, during the period 1966 73 under the direction of Donald Michie.

Standing in a pink desert landscape, I looked down and realized I'd become a robot, with skinny metal legs and pincers for hands.

No sooner has Spider-Man defeated the Green Goblin Patrick Pagee), at the end of Act I, for instance, than the even more destructive Arachne, with her castrating pincers for hands, comes along to resurrect the Green Goblin and a posse of supervillains and turn them on Peter, who isn't half as exhausted or confounded as the audience.

The character is like a number of Bond villains, physically abnormal, being six feet six inches tall, with steel pincers for hands, having dextrocardia.

Eventually, they raised the money to make a short film, "Xenogenesis," starring Wisher as a futuristic man in an orange jumpsuit who battles an armored robot with a metal pincer for a hand.

The grasp type was assigned a rank from 1 to 6 as follows—(6) hand pincer; (5) whole-hand grasp/2-hand grasp (adult-like); (4) partial finger grasp (i.e., some fingers placed awkwardly); (3) 2-hand grasp inefficient (balanced on fingers of both/ fragile grip); (2) object to torso grasp (uses hand against torso to scoop up object); (1) failure to lift object despite attempts.

Dairy cattle are commonly branded with tattoo hand pincers, the application usually being inside the ear.

Shortly after 10 a.m., Mr. Benitez made his way to the water side, a litter-picker in hand, pincering anything that did not belong in the bushes or on the grass.

A film of a beetle in its death throes led her to fashion three sets of arm movements for the dancers, who move as if sensing the world through their extremities: legs lift and strike out, arms hinge, and hands pincer.

He takes Bergner to the place where it happened, and, with steel pincer prostheses, holds his hand against the mango tree root -- still marked by the blows of an ax -- where he lost his own.

Assessment at 2 years 3 months revealed that she was able to stand with support, walk holding hands, had an immature pincer grip and was able to transfer objects from hand to hand.