Once the team made MuMuTAs work, they used five of them to actuate multi-jointed fingers in a robotic hand.

The science and technology publication American Scientist wrote about the "record-breaking, 10-inch-long whopper of a ...

"The human hand isn't completely rigid or purely soft -- it's a hybrid system, with bones, soft joints, and tissue working together. That's what we want our prosthetic hand to achieve.

A team of engineers has recently created a breakthrough prosthetic hand that can deftly handle everyday objects.

A human hand found on a playground in Ireland is believed to have been dropped by a bird flying overhead. The body part was dumped onto an empty schoolyard in northern Dublin around 10:30 a.m ...

A SEVERED human hand was discovered lying in the yard of a primary school today after a bird dropped it. The limb was dropped into the grounds of Our Lady Immaculate school in Darndale ...

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...

A new prosthetic hand offers strength, grasps objects with control, and detects textures, coming the closest yet to mimicking human […] ...

A new paper published in the journal Physical Review Research provides experimental support for the hypothesis that hand clapping essentially acts like a Helmholtz resonator —akin to the hum generated ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a better prosthetic hand that uses a hybrid design to carefully grip various objects with just the right amount of pressure.