One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics at low prices. Admittedly, they usually seem to be old flat-screen TVs, ...

Homegrown robotics firm Addverb has launched its first humanoid robot that is 6 ft tall, weighs 80 kg, and carries a 15 kg payload.

What happens when students stop building for grades and start building like engineers? This competition tested more than ideas.

Abstract: This paper presents the design concept of an Instrumented Compliant Anatomical Palmar Mechanism (I-CAPM), which leverages the deformable curvatures of compliant beams to reconstruct the palm ...

Developing a durable and affordable hand is one of the biggest challenges in robotics.

Abstract: In robotic prosthetic hand systems, with small sizes comparable to that of a human hand and consisting of numerous joints, increase in weight due to the use of numerous motors is a major ...