The physical interaction with the environment through grasping is critical for many robotic applications, particularly in dynamic and unstructured settings ...

Treasure Hunters Find an Ancient, Bronze 'Prosthetic' Hand in Switzerland; 'Never Seen Anything Like It' In 2017, treasure ...

Combining lab-grown muscle tissue with a series of flexible mechanical joints has led to the development of an artificial ...

With this new lightweight prosthetic hand, activities like tying knots, combing hair, and playing chess could become much ...

A small town in Oklahoma is losing its only child care center, the latest in a trend in rural parts of the state.

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A federal agency last week released pictures of clothing and jewelry recovered from a woman's human remains found around the ...

A woman who hand-raised a kitten from three days old before giving her to what she believed was a loving forever home received a "gut punch" of a telephone call from a shelter years later. Rachael Rae ...

A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been built by a team at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown ...

Nathan Spencer's arms and hands were paralyzed from a virus during childhood, so now he drives with his feet Nathan Spencer ...

For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era ...