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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Public releases show the Office of Naval Research (ONR) funding at least two efforts aimed at improving robot hand dexterity ...

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 ...

"I built a 5,000 kg giant robot arm just to see if my friend could survive the ultimate slap!" The post Man Engineers Giant ...

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 ...

Robots have made significant strides in automation, but in dynamic, unstructured environments such as ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

MIT has taken a big step toward improving how we control robots, offering a solution that could solve accuracy and ...

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Researchers in China have demonstrated a humanoid dexterous hand that gives robot fingers a ...

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 ...