Cardboard Box Engineering by Jonathan Adolph. Storey Publishing. In a word: science. ... The strings in this robotic hand, for example, mimic the tendons found in our actual hands.

Developed by Johns Hopkins University researchers, the bionic hand identified and manipulated 15 everyday objects, including delicate stuffed toys, dish sponges, and cardboard boxes, as well as ...

HandiMate, developed by researchers from Purdue and Indiana universities, lets children (or anyone else) build robots with cardboard, velcro, and other cheap, easily available materials.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A new cardboard-robotic toolkit allows children to create custom robots they control wirelessly with hand gestures without formal education in programming or electronics. The ...

For MIT CSAIL, it's simple: give the robots a sense of touch. Its researchers have developed a recycling robot, RoCycle, that uses sensors in its hand to determine the nature of an item and sort ...

A US$150 gesture-control device called the Myo Armband picks up and classifies the EMG signals, and the hand positions are sent to an Arduino microcontroller for pneumatic actuation of the robotic ...

Fortunately there are technology projects out there which could not only give you an extra hand, but save you doing the bending work. Once such project is The Cardboard Robot by Ken Ihara ...

Every Friday, Future Tense rounds up the best robot videos of the week. Seen a great robot video? Tweet it to @FutureTenseNow, or email us.. This week, we see attempts at creativity and more ...

The play — the process of building the robot — lasts about 90 minutes, and in that time students use engineering principles that are typically taught in college.