Yet, such artifacts are rare direct sources into the lives of historical amputees. We focus on the tools amputees used in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. There are few records written from amputees’ ...

New robotic skin gives machines the power to feel through hydrogel sensors and AI, revolutionizing prosthetics and human-robot interaction.

From above, the show floor at Automate 2025 looked like a huge high-tech terrarium: part smart factory, part anthill. The booths full of robots made for a living floor map of motion within motion: ...

But, unlike some other soft robots that are also sensitive to touch, it does not have countless electrode sensors embedded in ...

Scientists working in the field of robotics have done it again. They went and made robots even more advanced, on purpose.

"Is this your first prosthetic?" we ask. Kovalov smirks. "I’m missing one leg. Can’t have a second without a first." Popovych ...

A new synthetic “skin” gives robots the human touch. The low-cost, durable and highly-sensitive material can be added to ...

Scientists have developed a low-cost, durable, highly-sensitive robotic ‘skin’ that can be added to robotic hands like a ...

Scientists say the low-cost, durable and highly-sensitive material can be added to robotic hands just like a glove.