A robotic hand can pick up 24 different ... which can be made stiffer or looser to tune the hand's compliance, and from the silicone 'skin', which can also be added or removed.

While a traditional robotic hand would need a motor to actuate each joint, the ADAPT hand has only 12 motors, housed in the wrist, for its 20 joints. The rest of the mechanical control comes from ...

Dick novel, researchers from the University of Tokyo have brought a smile to the face of a bio-hybrid robot with living, lab-grown skin. The scientists announced on June 26 that they have ...