Karl Price, mechanical engineer for Atlas, demonstrated the updated three-fingered gripper. The second-generation device has seven degrees of freedom and seven actuators, with two actuators for each ...

A groundbreaking development has come from researchers at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan. They've created a biohybrid hand, a fusion of lab-grown muscle tissue and mechanical ...

The robot, built by local robotics firm OryLab and called OriHime, offers guided walking tours to visitors to Japan’s capital ...

Fast and complex multi-finger movements generated by the hand exoskeleton. Credit: Shinichi Furuya When it comes to fine-tuned motor skills like playing the piano, practice, they say, makes perfect.