A more brainlike artificial neural network is helping make robot hands smarter than ever. Check this one out in action.

A robotic hand solving Rubik’s cube has all the makings of hype headlines, but underlying OpenAI’s latest achievement is some subtler, more interesting science.

“What we’re really looking at in this paper is how do we make robot hands cheap enough, and reliable enough, that we can do more research with it and just make it more accessible,” Shaw ...

They used this method to make a bio-inspired robotic hand that combines soft and rigid plastics to make mechanical bones, ligaments and tendons, as well as a pump based on a mammalian heart.

Using a model-free reinforcement AI algorithm, researchers created a simulated, anthropomorphic hand that could manipulate more than 2,000 objects.

Google’s approach continuously analyzes the object and the robot hand’s relation to it, making it more adaptable, like a human. These robots are really just arms with brains, hooked up to a ...

The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.