Teen designs and builds a robotic hand with only LEGOs

In October, a student presented a robotic hand made entirely from LEGOs at the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Hangzhou, China. But Jared Lepora isn’t in ...
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Feeling is believing: Bionic hand 'knows' what it's touching, grasps like a human

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...
Futurism

Scientists in Japan Build Robot to Hold Hands With Lonely People

Scientists from Japan’s Gifu University built a robot hand for men to clasp when they feel lonely. The robot hand clasps to a user’s forearm so they can let go without dropping it to the ground. The ...
MIT Technology Review

A robot hand taught itself to solve a Rubik’s Cube after creating its own training regime

Over a year ago, OpenAI, the San Francisco–based for-profit AI research lab, announced that it had trained a robotic hand to manipulate a cube with remarkable dexterity. That might not sound ...
Scientific American

New Robot Hand Works by Feel, Not Sight

Many robots track objects by “sight” as they work with them, but optical sensors can't take in an item's entire shape when it's in the dark or partially blocked from view. Now a new low-cost technique ...
The Verge

This robot arm can detach its hand to grab things

The robotic hand can crawl around on its own, grab small objects, and bring them back to the arm. The robotic hand can crawl around on its own, grab small objects, and bring them back to the arm. is a ...