It's a device that brings to mind the bodyless hand, Thing, from The Addams Family: a human-like robotic hand, engineered by scientists at the University of Washington, that can learn on its own ...

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.

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 ...

Researchers have unveiled a robotic hand that can serve drinks, pick up eggs, cut paper with scissors, and even play a few notes on the piano. The Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM ...

Researchers at Japan’s Hiroshima University have developed a robotic prosthetic hand, controllable using only a wearer’s thoughts. The low-cost 3D-printed creation can perform a wide variety ...

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 ...

Goodbye, clunky metal robots. A neat new ‘bot from a German robotics design studio is a DIY affair that lets any Maker with an X-Acto knife slap together a programmable, moving machine. ZURI’s ...

Some combinations of material and machine just don't sound right, such as a wooden airplane the size of a jetliner (the Spruce Goose) or an airship full of extremely flammable gas (the Hindenburg).

The hand could eventually be used as a prosthetic or in robots that use artificial intelligence to manipulate objects. Weighing 1.1 kilograms, the hand is 22 centimetres long and made of steel and ...