Many classical pianists practice tirelessly―even risking injury―to hone advanced techniques, only to reach an impassible ...

Based on the DLR Hand II, HIT (Harbin Institute of Technology) and DLR (German Aerospace Center) have jointly developed a multisensory robot hand. This hand, sold by Schunk as "SAH", demonstrates that ...

Like muscle tissues in human bodies, the contracting force of the robot's tissues decreased and showed signs of fatigue after 10 minutes of action but recovered after an hour of rest, the team said.

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A team of researchers in Japan says it has developed a robot hand that moves using cultivated human muscle tissues and is the largest of its kind yet developed, with the ...