This Robotic Hand Lets You Feel From Far Away in Dangerous Environments What's just out of arms reach, is still within the grasp of your robot hand. By Jay Bennett Published: Oct 23, 2015 10:00 AM EDT ...

So the robot arm in this case (attached to an anthropomorphic cat torso) moves at a normal human speed. But there’s also the question of when it should reach out.

Quadriplegic patient Nathan Copeland watches a sensor-equipped robotic hand reach out. (Credit: UPMC / Pitt Health Sciences) A dozen years ago, an auto accident left Nathan Copeland paralyzed ...

For creatures without opposable thumbs, chameleons are exceptionally good at reaching out and grabbing things. That’s thanks to their very special tongues. At one and a half times a chameleon ...

Carnegie Mellon's noninvasive brain technology allows users to move robotic fingers by thinking about the motion, offering new possibilities for people with motor impairments.

For instance, you can have robot hands that can reliably reach out and grip things, but it's at the expense of looking like a mildly threatening Terminator.

There's a human-shaped hand made out of translucent plastic tubes, controlled with compressed air. There's also a life-size humanoid robot that runs around on wheels, which I was forbidden to take ...

Researchers created a mind-controlled robotic hand that gives people with certain types of ... Users had to have sufficient function in their shoulder and arm to reach out with the robotic hand.

Building a general-purpose robot hand with flexible fingers is still technically challenging and expensive. It is also worth mentioning that traditional robot manipulators require a stable platform to ...

12. Now the hand is complete–but it still needs a control system. Check out Harvard’s Soft Robotics Toolkit for inspiration, or just follow the instructions below. Building The Fluidic Control ...

Open Bionics Joel Gibbard holds one of the group's prototype hands. Human hands can now be replaced using robotics but only at a prohibitive cost. These bionic hands cost around £20,000 on ...