The robotics company Sharpa focuses its work on AI robots on grippers and sensors for human-like hands rather than locomotion mechanics.

Today, for the first time ever, I watched my 6-year-old son use his right hand. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to have no right hand? Seriously. Have you? Think about it for a ...

image: Researchers have designed a low-cost, energy-efficient robotic hand that can grasp a range of objects – and not drop them – using just the movement of its wrist and the feeling in its ‘skin’.

Honda robot hand with the soft skin sensors added to the palm. The black squares represent the centre of each touch pixel or “taxel”. Each square enables detection of force in three directions. Credit ...