If you’ve ever played the claw game, you probably never thought about the scientific applications of that arcade game designed to take your money. But engineers at Harvard University must have. A team ...

Have you ever wished your hand had an extra feature? Like, maybe, a second thumb? A scope probe pinky maybe? Well, if you are building a robot effector, you get to pick what extra features it has.

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have figured out a way to make a robot grasp an object quicker and more efficiently. MIT showed off the robot in a GIF exactly of the ...

Swiss scientists have done something truly unexpected: they’ve created robotic fingers using leftover crustacean shells. The result is a robotic claw that’s not only efficient but also eco-friendly ...