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

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

By learning from human touch, robots can grip objects more safely and adapt to real-world conditions without massive training ...

While the human hand, with four fingers and opposable thumb, is pretty darn awesome, it still falls woefully short when it comes to some tasks -- such as opening a soda bottle or peeling a banana. MIT ...

First it was an extra set of shoulder-mounted robot arms, but now MIT feels that humanity could also benefit from a couple of extra robotic fingers on each hand. Faye Wu and other researchers at the ...

Robotic systems have the potential to greatly enhance daily living for the over one billion individuals worldwide who experience some form of disability. Brain-computer interfaces or BCIs present a ...

Advancing Dexterity Robot Capabilities Robots have been around for a while, mostly doing the same repetitive jobs ...

The primitive five-fingered human hand is in need of an upgrade, according to researchers at MIT. So they’ve created a wrist-mounted robot that adds two long fingers to your hand so you can perform ...