The result is something akin to Thing from “The Addams Family” — with all the scamper and skill, but none of the skin or ...

While BionIT Labs’ roots are in advanced prosthetics, the company has evolved Adam’s Hand from assistive medical devices to ...

A Bristol-based roboticist has developed a robotic prosthetic hand using 3D-printed components that costs as little as £650, which is much cheaper than existing technology. Joel Gibbard first came up ...

Ritika Ghosh talks about the complexities that made her MSR independent project a challenge and the lessons she learned on the journey to success. The human hand has 24 muscles, 27 bones, 29 major ...

Researchers at the Zurich-based ETH public university, along with a US-based startup called Inkbit, have done the impossible. They’ve printed a robot hand complete with bones, ligaments and tendons ...

From R2-D2 to Optimus Prime, Wall-E to The Iron Giant, robots have long captured our collective imaginations. In today’s world, their influence is far less limited to fictional settings; robotics are ...

The Shadow Robot Company's take on the robotic hand, introduced in 2007, draws its power and dexterity from compressed air. Forty "muscles" made of rubber tubing are attached to various points on the ...

In September 2005, MD+DI published a story about researchers at Michigan State University who had built a robot designed for remote breast exams. The robot combined ultrasound technology and video ...

Robotics was the focus of a Science and Technology Challenge regional final designed to boost interest in studying STEM ...