Coming Monday

The metallic fingers close around yours in near-perfect synchrony, then tighten their grip as you try to pull away. For now, it is a computer that orders “Cyberhand” to greet you at the Italian robotics lab where researchers have spent the past 3 1/2 years creating the first prosthetic hand capable of eliciting natural sensory signals.

If all goes well, though, researchers say this bionic hand could be implanted on human arms two years from now, its wired joints discreetly covered by a synthetic glove.

Read more in Technology Monday about this cooperative robotics effort by six European teams.