Hands are remarkable tools, translating thought into action by allowing us to grasp, feel and manipulate objects. They also ...

What has opposable thumbs and is the most dexterous tool on the planet? The human hand, obviously. Well … not anymore. At least according to engineers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s ...

Introduction to EPFL's robotic arm and detachable hand. How the robotic hand was developed. How the hand can grasp and carry objects. Researchers at EPFL's (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) ...

Foundation models have made great advances in robotics, enabling the creation of vision-language-action (VLA) models that generalize to objects, scenes, and tasks beyond their training data. However, ...

A robotic hand can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously, thanks to compliant materials and structures rather than programming. When you reach out your hand ...

The DG-5F-S robotic hand by Tesollo is a human-scale device designed for precision and adaptability in robotic manipulation. Measuring 21 cm in length and weighing 880 grams, it closely matches the ...

Robotic brains have reached near-genius levels, but their hands remain clumsy. Most robots still struggle to retrieve a dropped grape without crushing it South Korea-based Tesollo, which develops ...

The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely. By Ari Daniel As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

ER-1.6, a new vision and language model to help robots make sense of their surroundings. To show off its capabilities, Boston ...