The idea for a simple robotic hand was created, like many good inventions, out of need and ingenuity. Richard van As, a carpenter from South Africa who lost four fingers while sawing wood, teamed ...

As difficult as it is for a human to learn ambidexterity, it’s quite easy to program into a humanoid robot. After all, a ...

This giant indestructible robot hand is capable of withstanding being smashed with a hammer and is already being used to train the next generation of AI robots.

For example, as instinctually easy as it is for a human to pick up an egg, robots usually struggle to compute the intricacies of force and manipulation while also not expending too much energy.

Computer science experts and engineering researchers have built a robot hand that can not only perform dexterous manipulation -- one of the most difficult problems in robotics to solve -- but also ...

But a new project out of MIT and Harvard imagines a better robotic hand–one with no hand at all. Instead of human fingers, it’s modeled after a Venus flytrap and one very clever origami project.

Scientists have developed a 3D-printed robotic hand which can play simple musical phrases on the piano by just moving its wrist. And while the robot is no virtuoso, it demonstrates just how ...

credit Image courtesy VintagecomputerHandyman Hand description For centuries, people have used the human body, and the hand in particular, as an inspiration and blueprint for engineering ...

Engineers create a 3D-printed robotic hand capable of playing Nintendo Engineers have created an inflatable robot so nimble it can beat the classic Nintendo game Super Mario Bros.

A robot that can operate a drill with two hands or pass machine parts from one hand to the other would be big improvements, allowing factories to automate even more steps in their processes.

A similar robot was able to solve the Rubik's cube last year. In that case, the researchers had to randomize parameters by hand-picking permutations they thought would lead to a better algorithm.