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 ...

With the SharpaWave robot hand, the company Sharpa takes inspiration from nothing less than the human model. It sees a technical gap for robotics manufacturers in this area. After all, the locomotion ...