A new type of robotic hand developed at The University of Texas at Austin demonstrates such sensitive touch that it can grasp ...

A robotic hand with fingernail-like tips lets robots peel fruit, open lids and pick up thin, flat objects with more precise, human-like dexterity.

Human-level robot hand can pick up a pringle without breaking it - FORTE system could transform household robots, as well as industries like health care and manufacturing ...

A robotic hand developed at UT Austin can pick up the most fragile items, like potato chips or eggs, without crushing them.

The Fragile Object Grasping with Tactile Sensing (FORTE) robot can grasp a crisp or raspberry without crushing it (UT) Engineers at the University of Texas at Austin have unveiled a robotic hand, ...

A tactile sensing robotic hand inspired by fish fin mechanics enables precise control of grip force, helping robots manipulate fragile objects without visual ...

Using an advanced imitation learning algorithm and camera perceptions, researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment ...

Originally developed in response to labor shortages in poultry processing plants amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the ChicGrasp is now a robotics system capable of learning by imitatin ...

When someone has been rendered tetraplegic by a spinal cord injury, they may still retain partial use of their wrists. An experimental device has been designed to help such folks lift cumbersome ...

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