Simple ways to guide students to explore, experiment, and innovate together using robotics kits in the classroom.

More information: Hanyang Zhou et al, The MOTIF Hand: A Robotic Hand for Multimodal Observations with Thermal, Inertial, and Force Sensors, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.19201 ...

Dextra is an advanced robotic hand, with 4 independently actuated fingers and a thumb with an additional degree of freedom. Because Dextra is designed as a self-contained unit, all actuators had ...

Engineers also revealed that the robot improves movement quality by increasing their shoulder elevation/depression (17.5°), ...

Multichannel soft robotic armband A key innovation in this research was the development of a multichannel soft robotic armband designed to convey artificial sensations of touch.

Building on SNC-Lavalin group member Atkins' patented work to deploy collaborative robots in the nuclear sector, the two firms aim to attach COVVI's bionic hand to a robotic arm, to enable dangerous ...

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...

Robot hands are usually designed with a single goal in mind: to hold onto things. To develop one that could do that and crawl around on its own like the Addams Family’s Thing, the researchers ...

Robotic hand rotates objects using touch, not vision Date: July 28, 2023 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: Inspired by the effortless way humans handle objects without seeing ...

Watch this robotic hand grab hold of an egg, fruits, a large plastic container, and a jug of orange juice. By Charlotte Hu Published Dec 16, 2021 3:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

[1/5]A robotic hand with the AiFoam artificially innervated smart foam, which enables it to sense objects in proximity by detecting their electrical fields and also self-heals if it gets cut, is ...

A robotic hand with a gecko-inspired grip Date: December 17, 2021 Source: Stanford University Summary: Aiming to create a robotic gripper that can grasp with delicate strength, researchers combine ...