Video: German Researchers Smash Robot Arm With a Baseball Bat
The robotics engineers at DLR, the German Aerospace Center, have a history of violent behavior with their mechanical creations — earlier this year, we saw them smash a…
View ArticleVideo: Coffee-Filled Robot Paw Learns How to Throw
Our favorite grippy robot fist, the balloon filled with coffee grounds, has graduated from grabbing to throwing. Its developers at Cornell University and the University of…
View ArticleVideo: Robot Hand Beats Humans at Rock-Paper-Scissors One Hundred Percent of...
So much for best two out of three. A robotic hand developed by engineers at the University of Tokyo will take you at rock-paper-scissors three out of three times. Then it…
View ArticleVideo: Affordable Robot Hand Made with Cellphone Parts Can Replace Its Own...
The human hand is incredibly complex, and no matter how many attempts we see to replicate it (lotsofattempts), none seem to get it perfectly right.
View ArticleWatch PR2 Robot 'Learn' How To Smartly Position An Unstable Object
Robots are all thumbs. The human hand is remarkably complex, and although we've seen some interesting attempts at replicating it, we're not quite there yet. Instead, some…
View ArticleLow-Cost Robot Hand Can (Almost) Change A Tire
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working on making dexterous robot hands to search for explosive devices, use tools, provide amputees with helpful…
View ArticleWatch A Super-Dexterous Robot Hand Use Tweezers
Robots, while awesome, tend to be clumsy in unpredictable human environments. Machines that use hands as deftly as humans do, with only minimal direction, would be a…
View ArticleRobot Learns To Grab Objects By Asking The Internet
Some things are just harder for robots to do. You know, things like appreciating literature, or writing music. Or grasping objects with their fingers. There are a lot of…
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