Animating human hands has long been considered one of the most challenging problems in computer graphics. That's because it has been impossible to capture the internal movement of the hand in motion - ...

Controlled by the company’s new Neural Joint V2 Controller, the robotic hand mirrors human finger movements with commendable ...

This robot hand closely follows the structure of a human hand. (Credit: Z. Xu and E. Todorov / UW) You’ve got to hand it to the roboticists at the University of Washington: They’ve built a robotic ...

The strength required to access the high calorie content of bone marrow may have played a key role in the evolution of the human hand and explain why primates hands are not like ours, research has ...

You could say human evolution started when the first brave ape came down from the trees. But scientists have long said that it was making tools that really set humans apart. And if tools define our ...

Whatever our hands do--reaching, grabbing or manipulating objects--it always appears simple. Yet your hands are one of the most complicated, and important, parts of the body. Despite this, little is ...