Researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a fully integrated, sensorized robot finger. Until now, touch sensors have been difficult to integrate into robot fingers. Among the challenges were ...
To reliably complete household chores, assemble products and tackle other manual tasks, robots should be able to adapt their ...
While there are a number of optical systems that provide robotic hands with a sense of touch, most of those systems are flat, so they're confined to the fingertips. A new MIT system, however, works ...
The development of increasingly sophisticated sensors can facilitate the advancement of various technologies, including robots, security systems, virtual reality (VR) equipment and sophisticated ...
WASHINGTON A paralyzed man is regaining a sense of touch while using a mind-controlled robotic hand, feeling subtle pressure in his own fingers when the artificial ones are touched. The experiment ...
An innovative prosthetic hand can grasp and distinguish between a wide range of objects with near-human precision 1. The human hand’s combination of rigid and soft anatomy allows it to effortlessly ...