The proposed robotic hand is designed for dexterity and has versatile functions for grasping, crawling and locomotion.

The result is something akin to Thing from “The Addams Family” — with all the scamper and skill, but none of the skin or ...

Like something out of the Addams Family, scientists have created a detachable robotic hand that can crawl and grab objects.

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A tiny robot so small it can barely be seen can still "sense, think, and act" autonomously, according to the engineers who built it. To the team's best knowledge, this joint invention is the world's ...

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. When you ...

In a lab experiment that sounds closer to science fiction than engineering, researchers have unveiled what they describe as the world’s smallest fully programmable robot. Measuring just fractions of a ...