MIT researchers built a soft drone that can not only fly but also pick up and move objects, similar to a flying hand. This high-tech drone is equipped with a soft, grasping mechanism. In the video ...

Apr. 3, 2023 — Newly created soft-rigid robotic fingers incorporate powerful sensors along their entire length, enabling them to produce a robotic hand that could accurately identify objects ...

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We've seen examples of robots mimicking humans, but now we're seeing robots that can autonomously teach themselves how to handle objects. Festo has developed a flexible robotic hand that uses ...

Potentially, any soft object could become a robot with the skin slipped around it: a piece of foam tube, a ball, or even a stuffed animal.

Depending on the object’s material, it might also compress when poked by the bionic finger: rigid objects hold their shape, while soft objects will deform when enough pressure is applied.

“When pressed by this bionic finger, hard objects retain their shape, whereas soft objects deform when sufficient pressure is applied,” says Wuyi engineer Jian Yi Luo, the study's senior author.