Public releases show the Office of Naval Research (ONR) funding at least two efforts aimed at improving robot hand dexterity and finger-level control: one focused on an underwater robotic gripper for ...

Multipurpose body parts could lead to more flexible robot designs ...

As technology improves, researchers slowly bridge the gap between prosthetics and human limbs: Scientists have developed a prosthetic hand that lets users feel temperatures and bionic legs that move ...

Snap, snap. There’s a new member of the Addams-inspired robotics family, and it’s got a very unusual way of getting around. Shaped like a disembodied hand and walking on its own fingers, this quirky ...

Competition over "robot hands" is heating up in China's humanoid (human-shaped robot) industry. To have robots go beyond walking and running and actually replace people's tasks on industrial sites, ...