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Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have extracted the building blocks of precise hand ...

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.

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 mechanical ...

The status quo of programming robots is thousands of hours of tele-operation to teach the robot how to do tasks. That's just impossible," Choudhury said. "With RHyME, we're moving away from that and ...

As difficult as it is for a human to learn ambidexterity, it’s quite easy to program into a humanoid robot. After all, a robot doesn’t need to overcome years of muscle memory. Giving a one-handed ...