Robotic hands could only do what vast teams of engineers programmed them to do. Now they can learn more complex tasks on their own.

Researchers at Japan’s Hiroshima University have developed a robotic prosthetic hand, controllable using only a wearer’s thoughts. The low-cost 3D-printed creation can perform a wide variety ...

In the accompanying paper about the hand, Haptic Identification of Objects using a Modular Soft Robotic Gripper, the authors explain how they did it.

Phoenix has 75 degrees of freedom when you count up how the machine can move in all its jointed components. 44 of those 75 are in the hands.

Called HandBot, it’s a D.I.Y. robotic hand which can recognize your hand gestures and mimic them back to you, or compete against you in a classic game of rock-paper-scissors. To do this, it uses ...

Remember that high speed robot from last year, that could beat humans at rock, paper, scissors? Since then, researchers at the University of Tokyo's Ishikawa Oku Lab have continued to work on it ...

The human hand is a marvel of engineering. How close can you get with this recycled design?

A robot hand developed by the University of Tokyo's Ishikawa Oku Lab is reportedly so adept at the game rock, paper, scissors that it is unbeatable against a human opponent.

Columbia Engineering researchers demonstrated a highly dexterous robot hand, one that combines an advanced sense of touch with motor learning algorithms in order to achieve a high level of ...

This Robot Hand Taught Itself How to Grab Stuff Like a Human The system, developed by OpenAI, ends up “inventing” characteristic grasps that we humans already commonly use to handle objects ...

Three minutes after Quigley spoke his initial request, the robot reaches down, closes its fingers, and lifts its hand up from the table. And all it holds is a pocket of air.

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