Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children’s nursery, part high-tech workshop and part cabinet of curiosities. The lab benches are strewn ...

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Scientists are using artificial intelligence to help bionic limbs act more like natural ones. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on an experimental hand that shares control with the user to carry out tricky ...

Investors should remain disciplined and back companies that have realistic goals based on economics, not hype,” warns Daiva ...

Modern bionic hand prostheses nearly match their natural counterparts when it comes to dexterity, degrees of freedom, and capability. And many amputees who tried advanced bionic hands apparently ...

Humanoid robots are starting to gain something that once belonged firmly in the realm of science fiction: a sense of pain.

Researchers have built a prosthetic hand that, with the help of artificial intelligence, can act a lot more like a natural one. The key is to have the hand recognize when the user wants to do ...

The researchers behind the recent work, based in China, decided to implement something similar for an artificial skin that ...

The boundary between living tissue and machine is blurring in MIT laboratories. Engineers there have developed a bio-inspired interface that allows lab-grown muscles to actuate robotic structures.

If you accidentally put your hand on a hot object, you'll naturally pull it away fast, before you have to think about it.

Dr. Chen added that TARS has thereby established a complete technological closed loop—from real-world data generation and intelligent decision-making to physical execution. This provides a replicable, ...