EPFL's robotic appendage features fingers that bend both ways and is designed to retrieve objects from spaces too hazardous ...

The human hand is amazingly complex. With 34 muscles, more than 30 tendons, and 27 bones, hands can grasp objects, express emotion, create works of art, and accomplish many of the tasks that drive ...

Foundational Concepts in Programming Industrial Robots. Before you can get a robot to do anything useful, you need to ...

Foundational Concepts in Programming Industrial Robots. Before you can get a robot to do anything useful, you need to understand how it works and the math behind its movements. It ...

While viral videos of robots performing parkour and backflips dominate social media feeds, industry insiders suggest these acrobatic feats are misleading indicators of progress. Industry executives at ...

The symmetrical design and flexible fingers mean that the robot can transport objects on either side of its body. For humans, ...

The result is something akin to Thing from “The Addams Family” — with all the scamper and skill, but none of the skin or snark. (Despite the resemblance, neither researcher had heard of Thing until ...

With up to six fingers that can bend in multiple directions, the innovative tool could one day be used to carry out tasks in tight spaces ...

This New Skittering Robotic Hand Could Reach Things You Can't ...

A robotic hand developed at EPFL surpasses the limits of human dexterity with a dual-thumbed, reversible-palm design that can ...

As AI moves into the physical world, Ulta’s robot manicurist offers a glimpse of what’s next. In my suburban Boston Ulta, I’m sitting with my hand in a little box. I’ve been promised that in roughly ...