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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...