Robots Can't Hold Stuff Very Well, But You Can Help A new online sim computes how and where a robot should grip objects like vases and turbine housings. You can even upload designs of your own ...

The robotics company that was once owned by Google shows off a new trick — its robot dogs can now tackle door handles, and hold doors open while others go through.

Human hands are remarkable pieces of machinery, so it’s no wonder many robots are designed after their creators. The amount of computation required to properly attenuate the grip strength and… ...

This disembodied robot hand — called Osampo Kanojo, or "My Girlfriend in Walk" — is covered in a skin-like gel that radiates warmth.It can squeeze back on command, and in later prototypes, its ...

Boston Dynamics has made a name for itself with outrageous, futuristic robots that walk, jump and run like people or animals. On Monday the SoftBank-owned company showed off another creation and ...

It’s a desktop interface that combines touch screens with robots. Whenever a new button would normally pop on the screen, a robot drives up instead, precisely parking for the user to grab it ...

If you want to teach a robot to pick up an object, you could do it the classical way and program it with line after line of code. Or like Kindred says its system works, you can use more modern ...

Robots can learn to hold knives — and not stab humans A technician works with Baxter, an adaptive manufacturing robot created by Rethink Robotics at The Rodon Group manufacturing facility ...