Seeed Studio's Amazing Hand is an open-source, 3D-printable robotic hand kit with eight degrees of freedom (8-DOF), designed ...

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

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

To use, the operator wore a haptic glove, each finger of which connected to a motion-sensing device. The operator's hand ...

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

The BionicSoftHand should rotate a 12-sided cube so that a previously defined side points upward at the end. The human hand boasts a unique combination of power, dexterity, and fine motor skills. We ...

Can cutting open a robot be the best way to win an engineering argument? That slice through synthetic skin, theatrically done ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. It's quite common for humans – especially those ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. It's quite common for humans—especially those who work in manufacturing—to tie a knot, strip the casing off a ...

It’s quite common for humans — especially those who work in manufacturing — to tie a knot, strip the casing off a cable, insert a pin in a hole or use a hand tool such as a drill. They may seem like ...

It can’t arm wrestle yet, but a robotic hand developed by students at Virginia Tech is strong enough to lift a can of food and dexterous enough to handle a raw egg. It’s a big step for robotic hands, ...