Developing a durable and affordable hand is one of the biggest challenges in robotics.

Robotics has made jaw-dropping progress in perception, navigation, and even conversational interfaces. Yet one part of the human body continues ...

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 ...

Students at the Springdale Public Library were treated to a workshop about biomechanical engineering led by representatives from the University of Arkansas. Click here to see more photos from the ...

SEVEN NEWS. WE ARE COUNTING DOWN TO THE 101ST BURNING OF ZOZOBRA WITH SOMETHING NEW. THIS YEAR, HE’LL HAVE A ROBOTIC HAND DESIGNED AND BUILT IN NEW MEXICO. TODD KURTZ TAKES US BEHIND THE SCENES.

First grader Amarah Ramirez, who has arthrogryposis affecting her arms and is blind, can now participate in class using a custom LED robotic hand built just for her by the Moorhead robotics team.

Anyone committed to building a particular skill is capable of experiencing the "ceiling effect," in which performance plateaus after years of training. For hobbyists, this is frustrating; for ...

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 ...

What has opposable thumbs and is the most dexterous tool on the planet? The human hand, obviously. Well … not anymore. At least according to engineers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s ...

Matt Carney was good at building robots — he just didn’t want to. While earning his PhD at MIT, he’d spent years studying mechanical engineering and biomechatronics in service of developing bionic ...