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 ...

While the majority of currently available robotic hands are designed to mirror the highly dexterous human hand, their asymmetric structure — which enables grasping from one side only — and limited ...

Introduction to EPFL's robotic arm and detachable hand. How the robotic hand was developed. How the hand can grasp and carry objects. Researchers at EPFL's (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) ...

What makes a humanoid hand so fascinating? Imagine a robotic gripper delicately assembling intricate components on a factory floor or carefully holding fragile medical instruments during surgery.

What has opposable thumbs and is the most dexterous tool on the planet? The human hand, obviously. Well … not anymore. At ...

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...

A research paper by scientists at the University of Coimbra proposed a soft robotic hand that composed of soft actuator cores and an exoskeleton, featuring a multimaterial design aided by finite ...

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