There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new ...

Tracking hand movement is far more difficult than basic skeletal tracking but that’s exactly what researchers at Microsoft are accomplishing. The system is called Handpose and could revolutionize ...

On stage, during a demonstration of Honor's first-ever humanoid robot, the Robot Phone had a simple interaction with its ...

Chinese robotics player Agibot has unveiled an updated version of its G2, an industrial robot designed to combine extreme precision with human-like flexibility for modern manufacturing. AgiBot G2 is ...

Here’s a party trick: Try opening a bottle of water using your thumb and pointer finger while holding it without spilling. It sounds simple, but the feat requires strength, dexterity, and coordination ...

What has opposable thumbs and is the most dexterous tool on the planet? The human hand, obviously. Well … not anymore. At least according to engineers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s ...

GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) — Kai Pollnitz sat in, what he later learned, was a fake doctor’s office in North Carolina this December when a man in scrubs and a mask walked in with a shiny blue box.

This robotic hand crawls away, grabs objects and reattaches In tests, the hand was able to detach from its arm, crawl like a small multi-legged robot, and retrieve up to three objects in sequence ...

At CES 2026, humanoid robotics company ROBOTERA is drawing attention not just for full-sized humanoid platforms, but for something arguably more fundamental: the robotic hand. While much of the ...

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Forward-looking: When engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) set out to rethink the human hand, they removed one of its defining constraints: attachment. The result is ...