With up to six fingers that can bend in multiple directions, the innovative tool could one day be used to carry out tasks in tight spaces ...

The robot can bend, grasp and carry in ways humans can’t, which could help it navigate spaces too confined for human arms.

This New Skittering Robotic Hand Could Reach Things You Can't ...

In tests, the hand was able to detach from its arm, crawl like a small multi-legged robot, and retrieve up to three objects ...

EPFL's robotic appendage features fingers that bend both ways and is designed to retrieve objects from spaces too hazardous ...

A robotic hand developed at EPFL surpasses the limits of human dexterity with a dual-thumbed, reversible-palm design that can ...

EPFL engineers unveil a detachable robotic hand that crawls into tight spaces, grips objects both ways, and returns ...

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

Introduction to EPFL's robotic arm and detachable hand. How the robotic hand was developed. How the hand can grasp and carry objects. Researchers at EPFL's (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) ...

To reliably complete household chores, assemble products and tackle other manual tasks, robots should be able to adapt their ...

A research paper by scientists at the University of Coimbra proposed a soft robotic hand that composed of soft actuator cores and an exoskeleton, featuring a multimaterial design aided by finite ...

(Nanowerk News) MIT researchers have created an interactive design pipeline that streamlines and simplifies the process of crafting a customized robotic hand with ...