A Hand on a Mission—Literally It’s hard not to think of the Addams Family’s iconic Thing when you see a hand walking solo. For a while now, various robotics projects have tried to emulate this ...

Building a Nature-Inspired Robotic Hand Part 7. Follow the next stage of this robotic hand project as nature-inspired design ...

As technology improves, researchers slowly bridge the gap between prosthetics and human limbs: Scientists have developed a prosthetic hand that lets users feel temperatures and bionic legs that move ...

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 ...

The five-fingered version of the robotic hand exercises a level of dexterity comparable to that of a human being. A second version added a sixth finger. The latest robot creation is rooted in human ...

The creepy and kooky robot can type on a keyboard, play a video game, and could help future humanoid robots. By Mack DeGeurin Published Oct 2, 2026 1:03 PM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) ...

A hand attached to the end of an arm is a given for most humans, but what if robots didn’t have to play by the same rules as we do? Researchers from ETH Zurich have turned an off-the-shelf robotic ...

The robot uses different attachments to perform different tasks, with the CSIRO hand being utilized to gently lift corals from one tank and transfer them to the next tank down the line. Better ...

With Tesla and XPENG already working on humanoids, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says creating the 'brain' is more difficult than ...

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 ...