Stretchable, transparent electronics that can bend, roll, and even mimic human skin are moving ...

A hand crawling around, detached from an arm and seemingly with a life of its own. It might sound familiar to fans of The Addams Family or Wednesday, but this "Thing" isn't fantasy, it's a tech ...

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To reliably complete household chores, assemble products and tackle other manual tasks, robots should be able to adapt their manipulation strategies based on the objects they are working with, ...

New 3D tactile sensing modules bring human-like touch to robotic hands, enabling precise force detection, adaptive grip, and ...

Engineers have unveiled a robotic hand that is sensitive enough to handle items like crisps and raspberries without damaging them. The breakthrough marks a major milestone towards creating robots with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A robotic hand developed at EPFL surpasses the limits of human dexterity with a dual-thumbed, reversible-palm design that can ...

Researchers developed a robot hand that senses fruit ripeness through touch, allowing it to pick delicate crops without ...

Here’s some nightmare fuel from the world of robotics: a robot arm with a six-fingered hand that can detach itself and crawl around on its own. The contraption is the invention of a team from the ...

In September 2005, MD+DI published a story about researchers at Michigan State University who had built a robot designed for remote breast exams. The robot combined ultrasound technology and video ...