Watch Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing training routines, or the latest humanoids from Figure loading a washing machine, ...

Digital Design Theory (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) is available on Amazon. Futurist experts have estimated that by the year 2030 computers in the price range of inexpensive laptops will ...

Today, heartier fruits like blueberries and pears are commonly harvested by machines. And rougher automated harvesting machines are used for blackberries that will be frozen or processed. The human ...

The new robot hand, described today in Science Robotics, recreates the most important human structures south of the wrist: bones and ligaments. The thing effectively has joints with adjustable ...

A robotic hand developed at EPFL can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously, thanks to compliant materials and structures rather than programming.

The hand is where the mind meets the world. We humans use our hands to build fires and sew quilts, to steer airplanes, to write, dig, remove tumors, pull a rabbit out of a hat. The human brain ...

It also weighs 20% less than the average human hand. The user manipulates the hand using his or her muscles and the feedback is provided in the same area.