Humanoid robots may soon gain more human-like dexterity thanks to a new wearable device ...

Teaching robots to manipulate objects with humanlike dexterity has long been one of robotics' toughest challenges. Tasks such ...

Mechanical hands claimed to be dexterous enough to thread a needle, childlike dancing robots and adult-sized ones to help ...

Humanoid robots are evolving and are expected to be the future of automation.

A British R&D unit that’s been compared to DARPA is funding synthetic muscles, electronic skin, and mechanical hands for a robotics dexterity project. The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) ...

A new robot could soon be set to clear a huge hurdle that previously got in the way of many more manual labor jobs becoming ...

Teaching robots to manipulate objects with human-like dexterity remains one of the biggest challenges ...

The humanoid robot of the future is a hulking specimen with a body that’s made in China and a brain that runs on American ...

A large multi-institutional collaboration, led by Northwestern University, has received $26 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch a new Engineering Research Center (ERC) ...

The robot, a pair of disembodied arms with crablike pincers at the end, wasn’t supposed to pick up the bag. It had been told to do a single tedious job: open plastic bags on a conveyor belt and stuff ...

iRobot cofounder Colin Angle unveils Familiar, a pet-inspired emotionally aware home robot designed to learn your routines ...