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

Hands move constantly during conversation. They signal emotion, stress a point, and form full languages such as American Sign Language. Behind this everyday motion lies a complex challenge. Each human ...

A team of MIT researchers created a speech-to-reality system that enables a robot to build furniture with just a simple ...

Whether you're reaching for a mug, a pencil or someone's hand, you don't need to consciously instruct each of your fingers on ...

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

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

The original Roomba was the first robot vacuum in the US, and the second ever made, following Electrolux’s Trilobite the year ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

The human hand is amazingly complex. With 34 muscles, more than 30 tendons, and 27 bones, hands can grasp objects, express emotion, create works of art, and accomplish many of the tasks that drive ...

Researchers at the University of Utah now report a way to make that trade-off a little bit easier. By giving a bionic hand a ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — This holiday season, one family has a lot more to be thankful for — thanks to a group of teenagers at an all-girls high school in San Jose. These girls spent this past ...

By reusing knowledge from previous tasks and applying it to new ones, the robot can generalize far more efficiently, which is ...