A Bristol-based roboticist has developed a robotic prosthetic hand using 3D-printed components that costs as little as £650, which is much cheaper than existing technology. Joel Gibbard first came up ...

Remember when the idea of a robotic hand was a clunky mitt that could do little more than crush things in its iron grip? Well, such clichés should be banished for good based on some impressive work ...

Cassidy Parrish had a problem to solve close to home. When her father’s hand pain grew worse, making everyday tasks like ...

Fourteen-year-old Thomas Aldous snagged the first-place Samueli Foundation Prize — and the $25,000 that goes with it — at the 2022 Broadcom MASTERS, a national science and engineering competition for ...

Researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology and Brown University in the US have found that people can “sense” a robot’s hand as an extension of their body. They found that performing a joint ...

Researchers found that working with a humanoid robot can change how our brains map the body, making its hand feel like part ...

Human touch is an amazing sense, and the human hand is an incredible tool. We can pinch feathers and heave dumbbells. We can grip rough rocky cliffs, gently hold raw eggs, and discern tiny, ...

Thanks to his new classmates, 15-year-old Sergio Peralta at Hendersonville High School near Nashville was able to catch a baseball in his right hand for the first time Like many students, Sergio ...

Scientists have created a soft robot muscle that sweats to stay cool and mimics the movement of a hand. The researchers, from Cornell University in New York, developed the robot hand from ...

German researchers have developed a groundbreaking AI-powered underwater robot that could transform how we tackle marine pollution by collecting ocean debris with its giant four-fingered robotic hand.