While the quest for robotic grippers with a light, yet firm touch has led to innovative approaches, such as the universal jamming gripper, it's still hard to go past the four fingers and opposable ...

Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made ...

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in printing a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons made of different polymers using a new laser scanning technique. The new technology makes it ...

In Alex Garland’s 2014 science fiction film Ex Machina, the CEO of a secretive tech company has built an advanced artificial intelligence in a realistic — if still mechanical — humanoid body. While ...