Our hands are works of art. A rigid skeleton provides structure. Muscles adjust to different weights. Our skin, embedded with touch, pressure, and temperature sensors, provides immediate feedback on ...

Losing a hand or limb is a life-changing event, and finding a prosthetic that can truly feel has long been a challenge. For many, traditional prosthetics offer limited movement and no sense of touch, ...

The research team, from the University of Cambridge, used machine learning algorithms to teach a robotic sensor to quickly slide over lines of braille text. The robot was able to read the braille at ...

A team from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Brown University has shown that people can ‘sense’ a humanoid robot’s ...

A robotic hand developed at EPFL can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously, thanks to compliant materials and structures rather than programming. When you ...

Anyone committed to building a particular skill is capable of experiencing the "ceiling effect," in which performance ...

As difficult as it is for a human to learn ambidexterity, it’s quite easy to program into a humanoid robot. After all, a robot doesn’t need to overcome years of muscle memory. Giving a one-handed ...

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A researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands has developed an eye-surgery robot that filters out hand tremors to allow ophthalmologists to operate on the retina and the ...