A robot hand powered by lab-grown muscles is challenging you to a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors – do you accept? Here’s hoping you choose rock, because a new remarkable biohybrid has just ...

How does a robotic arm or a prosthetic hand learn a complex task like grasping and rotating a ball? The challenge for the human, prosthetic or robotic ...

Scaling up biohybrid robots has been difficult due to the weak contractile force of lab-grown muscles, the risk of necrosis ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan have developed a biohybrid robot hand powered by lab-grown human muscle tissue, capable of performing complex gestures like ...

How does a robotic arm or a prosthetic hand learn a complex task like grasping and rotating a ball? The challenge for the ...

How does a robotic arm or a prosthetic hand learn a complex task like grasping and rotating a ball? In a paper in the journal Science Advances, researchers address the classic “nature versus nurture” ...

As a child, I did a lot of origami. I’d fold (and fold ... and fold ...) until the flat sheets of paper became intricate 3D figures. It’s a hobby I neglected over ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a better prosthetic hand that uses a hybrid design to carefully grip various objects with just the right amount of pressure. The robotic ...

Although the market for hand-drawn portraits largely collapsed following the invention of photography, there’s something magical about watching an artist create a lifelike image using nothing ...