Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory use a slew of autonomous robots to design and ...

WASHINGTON — To feel what you touch — that’s the holy grail for artificial limbs. In a step toward that goal, European researchers created a robotic hand that let an amputee feel differences between a ...

What has opposable thumbs and is the most dexterous tool on the planet? The human hand, obviously. Well … not anymore. At least according to engineers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s ...

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As difficult as it is for a human to learn ambidexterity, it’s quite easy to program into a humanoid robot. After all, a robot doesn’t need to overcome years of muscle memory. Giving a one-handed ...

A robot showed basic signs of self-consciousness in an experiment that required the robot to hear its own voice and reason. Three Nao robots were programmed to understand the rules of a simple task.

LINWOOD – After winning first place at the Jersey Shore Science Fair, Sebastian Chang, a seventh-grader at Belhaven Middle School, moved on to the Delaware Valley Science Fair’s 34th annual Albert ...