Here’s some nightmare fuel from the world of robotics: a robot arm with a six-fingered hand that can detach itself and crawl around on its own. The contraption is the invention of a team from the ...

What has opposable thumbs and is the most dexterous tool on the planet? The human hand, obviously. Well … not anymore. At least according to engineers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Human hands are incredibly dexterous tools — but they have their limits. They are asymmetric, they have only a single thumb and, ...

Inspired by birds which can fly with their wings and skillfully perch with their talons, a research team from Zhejiang University designed the world's first hand-shaped flying manipulation robot, ...

Stranger Thing: Scientists build robot hand that can go walkabout like Addams Family character. Swiss scientists have developed a robotic hand that can walk off on its own - rather like Thing from The ...

GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) — Kai Pollnitz sat in, what he later learned, was a fake doctor’s office in North Carolina this December when a man in scrubs and a mask walked in with a shiny blue box.

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have designed a robotic hand that looks like something out of the TV series "Merlina." Police identify BC mass shooter as 18 ...

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Extraordinary footage has emerged showing multiple Russian soldiers surrendering to an armed Ukrainian combat robot. Video shows three Russian troops dressed in white military gear lying on the ground ...

Twelve‑year‑old Kai Pollnitz from Georgetown received a life‑changing surprise when YouTube creator MrBeast gifted him a custom Open Bionics Hero PRO robotic hand. Twelve‑year‑old Kai Pollnitz from ...