Robotics has made jaw-dropping progress in perception, navigation, and even conversational interfaces. Yet one part of the human body continues ...

What has opposable thumbs and is the most dexterous tool on the planet? The human hand, obviously. Well … not anymore. At least according to engineers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s ...

While the majority of currently available robotic hands are designed to mirror the highly dexterous human hand, their asymmetric structure — which enables grasping from one side only — and limited ...

The Netflix drama "Wednesday" features a hand full of suture marks called "Thing." It is a bizarre being without a body, but it is treated as a full member of the Addams Family. The drama's ...

The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely. By Ari Daniel As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...