Inspired by the effortless way humans handle objects without seeing them, engineers have developed a new approach that enables a robotic hand to rotate objects solely through touch, without relying on ...

Researchers believe that machines, acting collectively, can accomplish tasks that are difficult for individual robots.

An ultra-light robotic prosthetic hand has been developed that enables both precision fingertip control and shape-adaptive gripping through simple motion commands. The hand features an innovative ...

The ability to grasp and hold objects is one of those human skills that robots have never quite got the hang of. Most attempts to tackle the problem have centred around giving robots human-like ...

A robotic hand developed at EPFL can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously, thanks to compliant materials and structures rather than programming. When you ...

Stacking an object on top of another object is a straightforward task for most people. But even the most complex robots struggle to handle more than one such task at a time. Stacking requires a range ...

Engineers have found a way to significantly speed up the planning process required for a robot to adjust its grasp on an object by pushing that object against a stationary surface. Whereas traditional ...

Scientists have developed a new system that allows people with no coding experience to teach robots simple tasks, such as grabbing an object and dropping it into a bucket. The system aims to mimic how ...

Researchers at MIT have built a robotic surface that is able to manipulate objects as part of MIT's ongoing research into "physical telepresence." The research seems to be a continuation from a report ...

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University researchers win DARPA funding to test a tiny, 10x10 array of electrodes implanted on the brain to help move robotic arms. Elizabeth Armstrong Moore Elizabeth Armstrong Moore is based in ...