Data from: Retracted: Biomechanical characteristics of hand coordination in grasping activities of daily living

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN RETRACTED Hand coordination can allow humans to have
dexterous control with many degrees of freedom to perform various tasks in
daily living. An important contributing factor to this important ability
is the complex biomechanical architecture of the human hand. However,
drawing a clear functional link between biomechanical architecture and
hand coordination is challenging. It is not understood which biomechanical
characteristics are responsible for hand coordination and what specific
effect each biomechanical characteristic has. To explore this link, we
first inspected the characteristics of hand coordination during daily
tasks through a statistical analysis of the kinematic data, which were
collected from thirty right-handed subjects during a multitude of grasping
tasks. Then, the functional link between biomechanical architecture and
hand coordination was drawn by establishing the clear corresponding
causality between the tendinous connective characteristics of the human
hand and the coordinated characteristics during daily grasping activities.
The explicit functional link indicates that the biomechanical
characteristic of tendinous connective architecture between muscles and
articulations is the proper design by the Creator to perform a multitude
of daily tasks in a comfortable way. The clear link between the structure
and the function of the human hand also suggests that the design of a
multifunctional robotic hand should be able to better imitate such basic
architecture.