[Miller] wanted to practice a bit with some wireless modules and wound up creating a robotic hand he could teleoperate with the help of a haptic glove. It lookes highly reproducible, as you can ...

Scaling up biohybrid robots has been difficult due to the weak contractile force of lab-grown muscles, the risk of necrosis ...

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According to Bicchi, the artificial bones "roll on top of each other, instead of turning around pins such as robot hands normally do." This, along with the tendon arrangement, allows the hand to ...

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

The field of biohybrid science is in its infancy, with only a few examples, such as artificial fish powered by human heart cells or robots using locust ears for hearing. This new biohybrid hand ...

The Tatum T1 in use, with a more human-like skin covering the robot. (Credit: Tatum Robotics) This also answers the question of why one would not just use a simple braille cell on a hand ...