An assistant professor at the University of Arkansas’s College of Engineering started developing a robotic gripper in 2020 ...

Robots can lift heavy loads and work nonstop, tirelessly moving boxes or assembling parts on an assembly line. But ask them to perform something simple for a human, like turning a door handle ...

Designing a human-inspired hand that can bend backward to pick up a broad range of objects and detach itself to crawl over to another firmly plants it inside the uncanny valley.

Robot grippers and suction cups can pick and place items, but more dexterous tasks such as assembly, insertion, reorientation, packaging, etc. have remained in the realm of human manipulation.

Researchers designed a robot that doesn't need visual data to get a handle on objects like a mini disco ball.

Various groups are now growing baby corals for transplantation into the world's disappearing reefs, but they need a hand. A new robotic hand has been created to help, by carefully and efficiently ...

Non-profit Junglekeepers is on a mission to protect 55,000 acres in the Peruvian Amazon, now with the help of a collaborative robot – or cobot – called YuMi from ABB Robotics.