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Happy to hand over the keys to a robot? Augmented reality might help
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Happy to hand over the keys to a robot? Augmented reality might help

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Would you trust a driverless car? A 2024 global survey involving nearly 8,000 participants suggests most people are wary...

Bio-mimetic robotic hand seamlessly integrates tactile feedback to outperform predecessors
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Bio-mimetic robotic hand seamlessly integrates tactile feedback to outperform predecessors

Comparison between F-TAC Hand and human hand. Credit: Zhao et al. Over the past decades, roboticists have developed increasingly advanced systems that can...

Robotic hand with unprecedented tactile sensitivity achieves human-like dexterity in real-world tasks
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Robotic hand with unprecedented tactile sensitivity achieves human-like dexterity in real-world tasks

Overview of F-TAC Hand. Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-025-01053-3 Researchers have unveiled a robotic hand, the F-TAC Hand, which integrates high-resolution...

Ultra-light robotic prosthetic hand enables efficient and stable grasping through simple control
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Ultra-light robotic prosthetic hand enables efficient and stable grasping through simple control

The research team led by Dr. Minki Sin, Senior Researcher at KIMM, has developed an ultra-light robotic prosthetic hand that allows amputees to...

UK court temporarily blocks deal to hand Chagos Islands to Mauritius | Courts News
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UK court temporarily blocks deal to hand Chagos Islands to Mauritius | Courts News

Decision comes after two British nationals born on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the archipelago, claimed the islands should remain under UK...

Robotic hand uses compliant materials to grasp objects with human-like dexterity
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Robotic hand uses compliant materials to grasp objects with human-like dexterity

ADAPT robotic hand (Adaptive Dexterous Anthropomorphic Programmable sTiffness). Credit: CREATE Lab EPFL A robotic hand developed at EPFL can pick up 24 different...

Tiny device processes hand movement in real time, storing visual memories with brain-like efficiency
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Tiny device processes hand movement in real time, storing visual memories with brain-like efficiency

RMIT PhD scholar and study first author Thiha Aung inspects the team’s neuromorphic vision device. Credit: Will Wright, RMIT University Engineers at RMIT...

Combining electrical and force signals boosts prosthetic hand accuracy
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Combining electrical and force signals boosts prosthetic hand accuracy

Graduate student Peyton Young works with a robotic arm controlled by electromyography (EMG) signals. Young has now developed a technique to use pressure...

An excellent new cheap fitness tracker could be close at hand – here’s when the Honor Band 10 might launch
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An excellent new cheap fitness tracker could be close at hand – here’s when the Honor Band 10 might launch

A new leak suggests the Honor Band 10 could be on its way It may be released before the end of April That...