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

The proposed robotic hand is designed for dexterity and has versatile functions for grasping, crawling and locomotion.

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

The result is something akin to Thing from “The Addams Family” — with all the scamper and skill, but none of the skin or ...

To reliably complete household chores, assemble products and tackle other manual tasks, robots should be able to adapt their ...

Researchers have successfully created a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons using 3D printing for the first time. A team from ETH Zurich in Switzerland were able to accomplish the complex ...

Robots can lift heavy loads and work nonstop, tirelessly moving boxes or assembling parts on an assembly line. But ask them to perform something simple for a human, like turning a door handle, ...

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-sized ...