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

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

If The Addams Family was a science fiction show, “Thing” might look something like this. Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can not only skitter about on its fingertips, it can also bend ...

A new soft sensing system could help humanoid robots move their hands with far greater precision in delicate, human-like ...

Biohybrid robots work by combining biological components like muscles, plant material, and even fungi with non-biological materials. While we are pretty good at making the non-biological parts work, ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a better prosthetic hand that uses a hybrid design to carefully grip various objects with just the right amount of pressure. The robotic ...

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