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 ...

Khaberni - It appears that providing robots with a hand capable of functioning in a manner similar to the human hand remains an elusive goal for robotics companies at this time, as achieving it is ...

Alamgir Karim, University of Houston Dow Chair and Welch Foundation Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is leading a team that makes prosthetic hands move with fine motor skills. In ...

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 ...

A new robotic hand has been created to help, by carefully and efficiently transferring the li'l corals between tanks as they grow up. The device was designed by Australian government research agency ...

The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely. By Ari Daniel As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

Few robotics technologies have been actually deployed in high-mix manufacturing. Let's explore the reasons behind this slow ...