Indian dance mudras yield advanced synergies for robotic hand control

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2025

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County extracted building blocks from precise hand gestures in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form. Their analysis revealed a richer set of movement patterns than those in natural grasps. The team published findings online Nov. 24 in Scientific Reports.

Ramana Vinjamuri leads the UMBC lab that studies brain control of complex ha