In the new study, Apple taught an AI model to recognize hand gestures that weren’t part of its original training dataset.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They’re emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to ...

What happens when you let AI create a game app without touching code? The answer exceeded all my expectations.

Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU), the first Philippine university to launch unmanned rockets in two global competitions last ...

With zero coding skills, and in a disturbingly short time, I was able to assemble camera feeds from around the world into a ...

A robotic hand with fingernail-like tips lets robots peel fruit, open lids and pick up thin, flat objects with more precise, human-like dexterity.

When I was a teenager, our family planted several hundred acres of soybeans, long before the herbicide chemistries of today to control weed pressure. That meant, as I’ve written here before, long ...

Robotic end effectors, particularly dexterous hands, have become a critical bottleneck in the commercial deployment of humanoid robots. US start-up Psyonic is addressing this gap with a plug-and-play ...

The Sentante robotic platform. [Image from the company’s website] Sentante announced today that the FDA accepted its stroke treatment system into its Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program (TAP).

Here’s a party trick: Try opening a bottle of water using your thumb and pointer finger while holding it without spilling. It sounds simple, but the feat requires strength, dexterity, and coordination ...

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Here’s some nightmare fuel from the world of robotics: a robot arm with a six-fingered hand that can detach itself and crawl around on its own. The contraption is the invention of a team from the ...