Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Researchers have tapped faint, latent signals from arm nerves and amplified them to create a prosthetic that enables real-time ...

Throughout history, visions of the future included human-looking robots. These days we have plenty of robots, but they don’t look like people. They look like disembodied arms, cars, and over-… ...

This Could be the Most Life-Like Robotic Hand Ever Developed / Enhanced Humans / Limb Regeneration / Robot Hands / University Of Washington Updated 2.26.16, 7:21 AM EST by June Javelosa ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College London have developed a new type of responsive “ synthetic skin .” The skin is made from a single hydrogel that is capable of ...

The five-fingered robot—built at a cost of roughly $300,000—incorporates a Shadow Dexterous Hand skeleton and a custom pneumatic system. This allows it to move faster than a human hand.

A U.S. research team developing the cutting-edge prosthetic is bringing Luke Skywalker's robotic hand, seen at the conclusion of the film The Empire Strikes Back, closer to real-life use.

A robotic hand controlled by the power of thought alone has been demonstrated by researchers in Japan. The robotic hand mimics the movements of a person’s real hand, based on real-time ...

How do you make a robot hand? If you are [Robimek], you start with some plastic spiral tubing, some servo motors, and some fishing line. Oh, and you also need an old glove. The spiral tubing (or pi… ...

The robot hand was 3D-printed on a Stratasys ... game when looking at full hand span behavior. Force-sensing resistors on the piano fed playing data to an Arduino microcontroller in real time to ...

From Japan comes a soft, warm motorized hand that lets you "experience holding your girlfriend's hand more easily than finding a girlfriend." This pale, sweaty robot hand wants to take romantic ...

That solves a challenge for robotic hands, which look like the fist of a robot from the 1980s "Terminator" science fiction film. The hands have been commercially available for years but are ...