Forward-looking: When engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) set out to rethink the human hand, they removed one of its defining constraints: attachment. The result is ...

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If The Addams Family was a science fiction show, “Thing” might look something like this. Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can not only skitter about on its fingertips, it can also bend ...

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The article is reported by Shuzhi Society: At CES 2026, Dreame, a global leader in high-end consumer electronics and intelligent manufacturing, captured global ...

The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream of activity spikes that may be ...

Researchers have built a prosthetic hand that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can act a lot more like a natural one. The key is to have the hand recognize when the user wants to do ...

DALLAS — What if you could wear a robotic device that boosted your strength and endurance, making heavy lifting and other physical tasks feel almost effortless? In some labs and factories, that ...

Doctoral student Eshwara Prasad Sridhar demonstrates a robot exoskeleton on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, at UT Arlington's Research Institute in Fort Worth. Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer What if you ...

What if the future of industrial automation could fit in the palm of your hand? Imagine a robot arm so compact it could rest on your desk, yet so precise it operates with sub-micrometer accuracy, a ...

Warehouse robotics firm Geekplus has debuted its new Robot Arm Picking Station in what the company claims is “the industry’s first end-to-end unmanned picking solution” as well as and a significant ...