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

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

Life Resembles ‘The Addams Family’ With Thing-Like Robotic Hand

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

This robot hand can detach from its arm and crawl around

The symmetrical design and flexible fingers mean that the robot can transport objects on either side of its body. For humans, ...
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Creepy robotic hand detaches at the wrist before scurrying away to collect objects

EPFL's robotic appendage features fingers that bend both ways and is designed to retrieve objects from spaces too hazardous ...

This robotic hand can crawl away from its arm to grab things

Unlike traditional robotic grippers fixed to stationary arms, this dual-mode manipulator functions both as a conventional end effector and as an independent mobile tool. Once undocked, ...
WCPO Cincinnati

NKU professors, students are building a robotic hand controlled by brain waves

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. — Inside a lab at Northern Kentucky University, students and professors from multiple disciplines are working on a project to make life easier — and faster, and less intrusive — ...
Crain's Chicago Business

Northwestern leads national effort to give robots a softer touch

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Northwestern University is lending a hand to the National ...
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A Helping Hand

Zhengyang (Kris) Weng (MSR '25) brought a passion for the piano to MSR, where his independent project replicating a human hand could ultimately impact robots in hospital operating rooms. The gentle ...