An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone ...

How to use few actuators to endow a multifingered robotic hand with the human grasping and manipulation abilities is a challenging problem. This article develops a design principle of a five-fingered ...

The new species was identified by its body size, texture, finger and toe shape, limb length and other subtle physical ...

In the subphylum Myriapoda, the classes Chilopoda and Diplopoda (centipedes and millipedes) also cause human harm. The subphylum Hexapoda includes the class Insecta, with both poisonous and venomous ...

Researchers poked, burned, and slashed a robot’s hand to see if it could feel. Image: University of Cambridge Image: University of Cambridge ...

We describe how to learn a compact and efficient model of the surface deformation of human hands. The model is built from a set of noisy depth images of a diverse set of subjects performing different ...