A 22-year-old Kenyan engineer has developed robotic hands designed to help deaf children follow classroom lessons by converting teachers' spoken words into sign language in real time. Norah Kimathi, ...

If you grew up watching The Addams Family, you probably remember Thing crawling around as a disembodied hand. Now, researchers have built something remarkably similar. Engineers at ETH Zurich’s Soft ...

Here’s a party trick: Try opening a bottle of water using your thumb and pointer finger while holding it without spilling. It sounds simple, but the feat requires strength, dexterity, and coordination ...

The creepy and kooky robot can type on a keyboard, play a video game, and could help future humanoid robots. By Mack DeGeurin Published Oct 2, 2026 1:03 PM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) ...

The five-fingered version of the robotic hand exercises a level of dexterity comparable to that of a human being. A second version added a sixth finger. The latest robot creation is rooted in human ...

Only a couple weeks removed from seeing a bunch of weird robots at CES, scientists have unveiled a new innovation in the world of creepy robotics — the detachable crawling robotic hand. Of course, one ...

The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely. By Ari Daniel As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...