True robotic dexterity will open up markets that automation has barely touched, such as This is where robotics evolves from repetitive to relational. We need to build machines that learn from people ...

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...

By combining soft materials, cloud-scale simulation, and learning from human motion, researchers are teaching robots to grasp ...

The work suggests that traditional classical dance encodes more refined motion patterns than everyday actions. The findings ...

Recent advancements in technology have revolutionized the world of assistive and medical tools, and prosthetic limbs are no exception. We've come a long way from the rigid, purely cosmetic prosthetics ...

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 ...

Ancient mudras offer a blueprint for smoother robot hand movement and could inspire new approaches to motor training and ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to make bionic limbs act more like natural ones.

How does a robotic arm or a prosthetic hand learn a complex task like grasping and rotating a ball? Researchers address the classic 'nature versus nurture' question. The research demonstrates that the ...

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