Every day we effortlessly make countless grasping movements. We take a key in our hand, open the front door by operating the door handle, then pull it closed from the outside and lock it with the key.

Getting a timely diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is a major challenge, but new research shows that how young adults, and potentially children, grasp objects could offer a simpler way to diagnose ...

In a pair of papers published on the preprint server Arxiv.org this week, Google and University of California, Berkeley researchers describe new AI and machine learning techniques that enable robots ...

A new type of robotic hand developed at The University of Texas at Austin demonstrates such sensitive touch that it can grasp ...

A robotic hand capable of grasping fragile objects — like a potato chip or raspberry — without damaging them has been developed by a team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin ...

Industrial robots are now widely used and are indispensable in car manufacturing and in other fields. Conventional robot hands are suitable for grasping hard objects of fixed form, whereas it is not ...

Neurobiologists have developed a model that for the first time can completely represent the neuronal processes from seeing to grasping an object. Every day we effortlessly make countless grasping ...