Workers have to bend to reach the bolls and can hurt ... on designing an end-effector for robotic cotton harvesting. An ...

you typically end up reaching inside to pull out stuck hairballs — and inhaling the inevitable puff of dust. A self-emptying robot vacuum actually takes that job out of your hands. It ...

Du also points out ethical considerations, such as the impact on jobs. For De Lagarde, improvements in the dexterity of robotic hands has brought back abilities she thought she had lost ...

Ever wondered if you could build a robot controlled by chemical reactions? [Marb] explores this wild concept in his video, merging chemistry and robotics in a way that feels straight out of sci-fi.

A robotic hand inspired by human skin can sense how hard an object is with a single digit’s touch and work out how much force is needed to grip it before the rest of the hand closes its grasp.

Passive training using a robotic exoskeleton hand could help pianists overcome that ceiling effect, according to a paper published in the journal Science Robotics. “I’m a pianist, but I ...

Learn about the development of Shadow Robot's DEX-EE hand, including its unique tendon-driven system using more than one motor per joint.