By moving their own hand and fingers, users wearing a remote-control wristband can manipulate objects in a virtual ...

Discover how a new ultrasound wristband developed by MIT researchers is enabling real-time hand movement tracking for ...

A newly developed soft robotic finger with a sophisticated sense of touch could one day help your doctor perform routine office examinations, a new study suggests. The finger can take a person's pulse ...

From Boston Dynamics’ Atlas to Google’s SayCan, most hand-wielding robots don’t have the dexterity necessary to “feel” what they’re holding. (If they did, maybe a 7-year-old boy wouldn’t have had his ...

Researchers have developed an ultrasensitive, human-like robotic ‘finger’ capable of safely performing routine physical examinations like a medical doctor would. They say the ‘robodoctor’ could be ...

Humanoid robots struggling with tasks like grasping a cup have a new teacher — a person wearing an ultrasound wristband that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Chinese scientists said the dexterous hand could act as a ‘robodoctor’, like a physician - Hongbo Wang/SWNS A robotic finger ...

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 ...

While the human hand, with four fingers and opposable thumb, is pretty darn awesome, it still falls woefully short when it comes to some tasks -- such as opening a soda bottle or peeling a banana. MIT ...

I was skeptical when I first heard about Amagami Ham Ham. It’s a cute robot that nibbles your finger, which is supposed to be a relaxing, almost nurturing action to reduce stress, heal, and comfort ...