High Speed Robotic Hand in action

I've just been watching a demo reel of the High Speed Robotic Hand being developed by the Ishikawa Komuro Lab. It features a super-quick robotic hand doing all sorts of object manipulation - bouncing a ping-pong ball, twirling sticks, throwing and catching, and picking up a grain of rice with tweezers:

Whilst I've seen most of these videos before individually, it's great to see them compiled into one set. Until you see this stuff in acton you won't believe it's real technology.