A talented teenager from the UK has built a four-fingered robotic hand from standard Lego parts that performs almost as well as research-grade robotic hands. The anthropomorphic device can grasp, move ...

A Bristol teenager built a functional robotic hand using Lego Mindstorms, proving educational toys can spark engineering ...

Called the Educational SoftHand-A, created by Jared K. Lepora from Bristol Grammar School with guidance from his father, Dr Nathan F. Lepora of the University of Bristol, mimics the natural motion of ...

When NAO, a 22.6-inch tall robot designed by Softbank Robotics, reaches out with its three plastic-coated fingers to comfortingly pat the hand of a German student, it does so with all the humanity it ...

It’s not the best version of Jingle Bells you’ll hear this year but have some festive cheer – it’s being played by a rubber robot hand that can’t move by itself. What’s more, the hand could point the ...

Robotics engineers worldwide are tackling one of the most challenging frontiers in artificial intelligence and mechanical engineering: building a hand that functions like a human's. While ...

July 25 (UPI) --A research team led by engineers with the University of California San Diego has shown off a robotic hand that can rotate an object in its palm using touch-based sensors rather than by ...