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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…

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Video: 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…

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Video: 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…

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Video: 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.

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Watch 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…

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Low-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…

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Watch 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…

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Robot 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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