The human hand is amazingly complex. With 34 muscles, more than 30 tendons, and 27 bones, hands can grasp objects, express emotion, create works of art, and accomplish many of the tasks that drive ...

OpenAI has rapidly scaled its robotics lab over the past year and plans to open up a second lab, insiders say.

Foundational Concepts in Programming Industrial Robots. Before you can get a robot to do anything useful, you need to ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The symmetrical design and flexible fingers mean that the robot can transport objects on either side of its body. For humans, that would look like holding a ball in your palm while simultaneously ...

Alex Perry is a tech reporter at Mashable who primarily covers video games and consumer tech. Alex has spent most of the last ...

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

The curious minds at ColdFusion showcase a robot hand learning to mimic human movements.