Zhengyang (Kris) Weng (MSR '25) brought a passion for the piano to MSR, where his independent project replicating a human hand could ultimately impact robots in hospital operating rooms. The gentle ...

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

Robotic hacker [Andrea Trufini] apparently likes choices. Not only does his robotic arm have six degrees of freedom, but it has a variety of ways he can control it. The arm’s software can accept ...

Users will be able to operate a robot by using only a mobile phone, thanks to a new Java application developed by Motorola. The US firm has teamed up with software programming company Flashline to ...

A highly dexterous, human-like robotic hand with fingertip touch sensors can delicately hold eggs, use tweezers to pick up computer chips and crush drink cans. The hand could eventually be used as a ...

Users can make a robot walk and dance, simply by typing commands into a mobile phone. LONDON (ZDNet UK)--Users will be able to operate a robot by using only a mobile phone, thanks to a new Java ...

Robotic hands could only do what vast teams of engineers programmed them to do. Now they can learn more complex tasks on their own. A robotic hand? Four autonomous fingers and a thumb that can do ...

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 ...

Robots nowadays do have a way of making us humans feel dull and underequipped, don’t they? And the DexArm robot makes no exception, as it seems there’s nothing it can’t do. DexArm is a robotic arm ...