Abstract: Teaching a robotic arm can be unintuitive and challenging due to the disparity between natural human limb movements and robotic manipulator control. Substantial training is often required to ...

Abstract: Aerial robotic arms aim to enable inspection and interaction in otherwise hard-to-reach areas from the air. However, many aerial manipulators feature bulky or heavy robot manipulators ...

So, what exactly is robotics? At its heart, it’s the field that deals with designing, building, operating, and applying robots. Think of it as the intersection of engineering and computer science, all ...

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 ...

Here’s some nightmare fuel from the world of robotics: a robot arm with a six-fingered hand that can detach itself and crawl around on its own. The contraption is the invention of a team from the ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Human hands are incredibly dexterous tools — but they have their limits. They are asymmetric, they have only a single thumb and, ...