Scaling up biohybrid robots has been difficult due to the weak contractile force of lab-grown muscles, the risk of necrosis ...

Commercial flex sensors are pretty expensive, so he experimented with some homemade sensors ... too. For the robot hand, he used balsa wood and hinges for each joint. Flexible thread provided ...

A few unfortunates manage to do both at once. [MusaW]’s 3D Printed Quadruped Robot, on the other hand, moves in rapid motions that manage to look sharp and insect-like instead of unstable.

The system's hybrid design is a first for robotic hands, which have typically been too rigid or too soft to replicate a human's touch when handling objects of varying textures and materials. The ...

Imagine a robotic hand that coordinates its palm and fingers with human-like precision -- not only grasping objects with ...

The innovation offers a promising solution for people with hand loss and could improve how robotic arms interact with their environment. Details about the device appear today in Science Advances.