With this new lightweight prosthetic hand, activities like tying knots, combing hair, and playing chess could become much ...

A robot hand powered by lab-grown muscles is challenging you to a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors – do you accept? Here’s ...

A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been built by a team at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown ...

As others have pointed out, the shadow of the arm disappears when the robot is show from the side ... The elaborate fake was concocted by a pair of animators, [Tobias Becker] and [Steffen Tron ...

A robotic hand inspired by human skin can sense how hard an object is with a single digit’s touch and work out how much force is needed to grip it before the rest of the hand closes its grasp.

The Tatum T1 in use, with a more human-like skin covering the robot. (Credit: Tatum Robotics) This also answers the question of why one would not just use a simple braille cell on a hand ...

Passive training using a robotic exoskeleton hand could help pianists overcome that ceiling effect, according to a paper published in the journal Science Robotics. “I’m a pianist, but I ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Researchers at Swiss university ETH Zurich created a humanlike robotic hand using new 3D printing technology to create more sophisticated prosthetics. More from ...