But a new project out of MIT and Harvard imagines a better robotic hand–one with no hand at all. Instead of human fingers, it’s modeled after a Venus flytrap and one very clever origami project .

But unlike previous attempts, this flexible display from MIT changes color and texture at the drop of a hat. ... For now, the color and texture change go hand in hand.

MIT, which is obviously a firm believer that we can and should enhance humans as far as physically possible, has a solution: a wrist-mounted robot that gives you two extra fingers. With the so-called ...

MIT builds robot hand that can ‘see and feel’ objects as fragile as a crisp in major breakthrough 'We wish to enable seeing the world by feeling the world,' researchers say.

The Breakthrough. Using flexible 3D printed fingers, a new hand developed by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is less likely to break fragile objects when it picks it up.

Using a model-free reinforcement AI algorithm, researchers created a simulated, anthropomorphic hand that could manipulate more than 2,000 objects.

MIT researchers create robot to ease labor for hand-pump ventilators NOW COME UP WITH A WAY TO MAKE ONE WITH THE SIMPLEST OF PARTS. IF YOU HAVE EVER WATCHED A TV MEDICAL DRAMA, YOU HAVE PROBABLY ...