Scaling up biohybrid robots has been difficult due to the weak contractile force of lab-grown muscles, the risk of necrosis ...

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...

Johns Hopkins University engineers have created a groundbreaking prosthetic hand that can grip everyday objects like a human ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping gathered the country's most powerful corporate chieftains including Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei ...

A groundbreaking development has come from researchers at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan. They've created a biohybrid hand, a fusion of lab-grown muscle tissue and ...

On the other hand, too much anthropomorphization can cause ... At the same time, giving certain human features to a robot can facilitate cooperation with the machine—after all, we are used to working ...

The result is a robotic hand that intuitively "knows" what it's touching, much like the nervous system does, Thakor said. "If you're holding a cup of coffee, how do you know you're about to drop it?