A team of Chinese scientists has mimicked the underlying perceptual mechanism to create a bionic finger with an integrated tactile feedback system capable of poking at complex objects to map out ...

It is so sensitive that it can actually “feel” what it is touching, and it's dextrous enough to easily change the position of its fingers so it can better hold objects, a maneuver known as ...

It grasps objects of various shapes and sizes between two grippy but compliant triangular fingers. Each of those fingers is made of a couple of lengths of measuring tape which are laid lengthwise ...

The new “finger” contains a carbon fiber tactile sensor, which returns a stronger signal when compressed against stiffer objects. The device moves across an object's surface, poking several ...

An innovative prosthetic hand can grasp and distinguish between a wide range of objects with near-human ... surpassing the performance of soft robotic fingers and rigid prosthetic fingers.