As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to ...

The Baltimore stroke-rehab startup has plans to build upper-extremity devices, too, CEO Bradley Hennessie said.

EPFL's robotic appendage features fingers that bend both ways and is designed to retrieve objects from spaces too hazardous ...

Like something out of the Addams Family, scientists have created a detachable robotic hand that can crawl and grab objects.

The result is something akin to Thing from “The Addams Family” — with all the scamper and skill, but none of the skin or ...

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Near the end of "The Empire Strikes Back," after Luke Skywalker has had his big confrontation with Darth Vader in the battle where he loses his hand (and also learns that Darth Vader is his father), ...

In the future, a caregiving machine might gently lift an elderly person out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child’s room, picking up scattered ...

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