[Paul Victorey]

Hmm... yes.

However, this is not a robotics project per say -- the end product would be a prosthetic hand, to replace an amputated human hand. I'm not as concerned with how to make an AI grasp an object, I have a theory on a new type of control system that would allow an amputee to control the hand AS IF it were an organic hand. And it does it without any implants necessary, unlike neuroelectric control schemes.

I really need to know if it's possible, from ONLY a mechanical standpoint, to build a hand, which moved like the human hand, in which I could control all the joints of the hand independantly.

The control hardware here would not be trying to identify/grasp objects, it would be to identify how the user is trying to move their "hand", and respond in the same way that an organic hand would respond to the same stimuli.

Of course translating one set of control signals to another would be difficult; this control element is the weakest link in current designs, but my theory could bypass or eliminate all the major drawbacks, if it works in the real world.