University of Victoria engineering graduate Pranav Shrestha is heading back to his home country of Nepal this week to give his father a hand — several hands, actually. The ultimate goal is to provide ...

Imagine a portable 3D printer you could hold in the palm of your hand. The tiny device could enable a user to rapidly create customized, low-cost objects on the go, like a fastener to repair a wobbly ...

A 3D printer that can produce complex systems of bendy and rigid materials, such as a robotic hand or an artificial heart, could be used to make more lifelike robots. Robert Katzschmann at the Swiss ...

We don’t think twice about using our hands throughout the day for tasks that still thwart sophisticated robots—pouring coffee without spilling when half-awake, folding laundry without ripping delicate ...

The hand was printed using a technique called slow-curing, which gives plastics more time to set and makes them more durable. Scientists have created the most human-like robotic hand ever, complete ...