A new approach to simulating biologically inspired robotics can cut the design and training of tactile robots from eighteen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Science and Technology of China has made a fascinating development in robotics, with the octopus-inspired robotic ...

A flexible electronic skin inspired by shark electroreception lets robotic hands identify object shapes and materials through both non-contact electrostatic scanning and touch-based sensing.

Alamgir Karim, University of Houston Dow Chair and Welch Foundation Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is leading a team that makes prosthetic hands move with fine motor skills. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A robotic hand developed at EPFL surpasses the limits of human dexterity with a dual-thumbed, reversible-palm design that can ...

A robotic hand inspired by human skin can sense how hard an object is with a single digit’s touch and work out how much force is needed to grip it before the rest of the hand closes its grasp.

Researchers at a Chinese university have built a soft, human-inspired robot that can physically grow and shrink on command, mimicking the way human bones elongate during development. The robot, called ...

While roboticists have introduced increasingly advanced systems over the past decades, most existing robots are not yet able to manipulate objects with the same dexterity and sensing ability as humans ...