Sports Related Post Traumatic Seizures. â¢One concern for athletes who play contact sports (boxing, karate, kick-boxing, muay thai. boxing, American football, ice-hockey, wrestling, judo) is that of TBI and resultant. neurological sequelae such as seizures.
Typically, magnetic clamping technology is mainly used in stationary workholding systems. That is until now with the introduction of the Magnos Mau magnetic gripper that adapts to fit onto any robot arm for handling ferromagnetic workpieces. The gripper, from Schunk Inc. (www.schunk.com), ensures a secure hold at very limited space requirements at a low weight.
Neandertals may have had this pulp-to-pulp precision grip, but their hands were extremely muscular and not capable of our own fine movements. Being able to grip with some precision, however, is widely shared among apes and Old World monkeys, which have a joint allowing rotation of the thumb. And being able to grasp with an opposable thumb is shared by all nonhuman primates, having evolved very early in our lineage.