Orbit Robotics' Helios uses tendon-driven arms to move through microgravity and handle cargo. Maintenance alone eats 35% of crew time in orbit.

Robotics companies want tremendous amounts of data on how we move our hands and limbs, and their tactics are getting strange. I was recently invited to join an app that would pay me cryptocurrency to ...

In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill. Harvard researchers discovered a surprising fix: adding a bit of ...

Mexican researchers develop simplified robotic arm inspired by a simple childhood promise A Mexican engineer has helped build a robotic arm for his lifelong friend, aiming to make prosthetics simpler ...

Researchers in Mexico have developed a robotic arm they say reduces the complexity that often leads patients to abandon prosthetic devices. The E-Redi arm, made by scientists at the University of ...

A Chinese satellite equipped with a robotic "octopus arm" has passed a key refueling test in low Earth orbit (LEO), according to state-run media. The achievement highlights China's continued ...

Steve & Stanley spent two years creating a six degrees of freedom (6-DOF) robotic arm from scratch, combining mechanical engineering, electronics and software into a unified system. Their process ...

HELSINKI — A Chinese commercial company has conducted an on-orbit demonstration of a flexible robotic arm, marking progress toward capabilities for satellite servicing, refueling and debris removal.

The Robot Phone is essentially a high-end smartphone fitted with a motorised camera arm that folds out from the rear panel. The module houses a 200-megapixel main sensor built into what Honor ...

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Forward-looking: When engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) set out to rethink the human hand, they removed one of its defining constraints: attachment. The result is ...

Engineers have built a detachable robotic hand that can crawl into hard-to-reach spaces to retrieve objects. The spider-like device can be fitted with multiple fingers and is reversible, meaning it ...