A robotic hand developed at EPFL can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge ... this is called open-loop control. For example, when the team programmed the robot ...

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 ...

Maryland unveiled in journal Science Advances on March 5 a new type of bionic hand that can adjust its grip while holding objects just like a human hand. The technology uses electronic 'skin' and ...

Takeuchi led a research team that built a full-size, 18 centimeter-long biohybrid human-like hand with all five fingers driven by lab-grown human muscles. Out of all the roadblocks that keep us ...

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Others feel when the skin is stretched—like when you open your hand to grab an extra-large mug ... the team engineered a flexible device—roughly the size of the tip of a human thumb—that can sense ...