Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first robot capable of manipulating unfamiliar objects was unveiled on Thursday, with its creators ...
When most of us pick up an object, we don’t have to think about how to orient it in our hand. It’s something that comes naturally to us as we learn to navigate the world. That’s something that allows ...
It does not take much to confuse some robots. A machine might be great at handling a simple object like a box, yet when it ...
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 ...
The Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (President Chunhong Park; hereinafter "KIMM") developed a robot hand capable of handling various objects and tools in daily life, such as holding an egg ...