The robot can bend, grasp and carry in ways humans can’t, which could help it navigate spaces too confined for human arms.

Alex Perry is a tech reporter at Mashable who primarily covers video games and consumer tech. Alex has spent most of the last ...

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 ...

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...

Meta says it’s partnering with sensor firm GelSight and Wonik Robotics, a South Korean robotics company, to commercialize tactile sensors for AI. The new devices aren’t meant for consumers. Rather, ...

Designing an anthropomorphic robotic hand seems to make a lot of sense — right up until the point that you realize just how complex the human hand is. What works well in bone and sinew often doesn’t ...