Public releases show the Office of Naval Research (ONR) funding at least two efforts aimed at improving robot hand dexterity ...

MIT has taken a big step toward improving how we control robots, offering a solution that could solve accuracy and ...

Robots may be coming for your chores someday, but at the University of Texas at Austin they are starting with something far ...

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. — Inside a lab at Northern Kentucky University, students and professors from multiple disciplines are working on a project to make life easier — and faster, and less intrusive — ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Northwestern University is lending a hand to the National ...

Made with wood, springs and rubber bands, Rich Walker remembers fondly the first robotic hand built by Shadow Robot in the late 1990s. "A lot of it was done with just stuff that we had," says Walker, ...

A new soft sensing system could help humanoid robots move their hands with far greater precision in delicate, human-like ...