With a small arsenal of 3D printers in his lab, he thought what a good project it would be to print a functional rubber hand ...

Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

Abstract: Mapping human hand motion to an anthropomorphic robotic hand is crucial for dexterous hand teleoperation. However, numerous challenges remain due to the high Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) of ...

Though Atlas was designed to resemble a person in other ways, its hands aren’t exactly one-to-one. Instead, company engineers ...

What happens when you try to build your own food delivery robot from scratch? A mix of creativity, chaos, and comedy ensues. Social Security, Medicare are "going to be gone," Donald Trump warns Alaska ...

(via Boston Dynamics) Grippers are one of the most intricate parts of a humanoid robot, packed with actuation and sensing; they need to be durable enough to handle tough jobs, but precise enough to ...

In context: Elon Musk has long hyped Tesla's Optimus robots as a potentially transformative technology capable of eclipsing its electric vehicle business and driving the company toward a multitrillion ...

It’s been just over 12 years since Boston Dynamics unveiled its bipedal Atlas robot, and along the way it’s made huge advances in both mobility and AI capabilities. A new video (top) shared by the ...

Researchers and engineers from the Technical University of Munich have developed a first-of-its-kind underwater robotic hand designed to detect, grip, and withdraw litter from oceanic depths. Built as ...

Abstract: Power grip is one of the fundamental functionalities of a robotic hand prosthesis, as it is essential for performing various activities of daily living. This study proposes the use of the ...

Neuralink’s brain chip, which converts brain signals into Bluetooth-based remote commands, grabbed headlines last year for enabling its first human user to control a laptop and play computer games.