Modular design is rapidly becoming the key to cost-effective automation, especially in sectors where demand variability and ...

While the advent of robotic systems that can complete household chores has been widely anticipated, those commercially ...

Straight from the Marvel universe and into our workshop—we built a real-life Iron Spider suit, complete with mechanical arms and a high-tech design worthy of Stark Industries. This isn’t just cosplay, ...

Photos: Testing the prosthetic arm. Team lead by Applied Physics Laboratory has come up with a prosthetic breakthrough, giving fine motor skills and sensory perception to amputees.

And the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is investing in robotic arms that could revolutionize the ability to repair satellites in space. On the software side, the GPS III satellites, the ...

Scientists show that breathing may be used to control a wearable extra robotic arm in healthy individuals, without hindering control of other parts of the body. Neuroengineer Silvestro Micera ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Space Shuttle Endeavour, which roared off the pad early Tuesday (March 11), is carrying a Canadian-built humanoid robotic arm with unprecedented dexterity for a space robot. The ...

Brain implant gives robotic arm a sense of touch ... Humans have a sense called proprioception, which helps us know where our body parts are, even when they're not visible.