Engineers at Saarland University have taken a leaf out of nature’s book by equipping an artificial hand with muscles made from shape-memory wire. The new technology enables the fabrication o... Read more
Engineers at Oregon State University have developed and successfully demonstrated the value of a simple pulley mechanism to improve hand function after surgery. The device, tested in cadaver... Read more
New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers. Twisting a screwdriver, removing a bottle cap, and peeling a banana are just a few simple tasks that are tricky to... Read more
Nigel Ackland could be mistaken for a cyborg. He has a high-tech robotic hand that looks like it started life as a Formula 1 car and its movements are alarmingly lifelike. It’s called the “b... Read more
The robotic hand is thus powerful yet delicate It may be difficult to imagine, but pouring juice into a plastic cup can be a great challenge to a robot. While one hand holds the glass bottle... Read more
Which could enable it to sort objects into different bins, dispose of trash etc. Last year we looked at a universal robotic gripper, which was made by filling an elastic membrane with... Read more
This April, researchers from Montreal’s McGill University announced the development of their prototype Biomedical Sensor Glove. Stroke victims who have lost the use of their hand are i... Read more