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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 ...

A new robotic hand resembles a beloved character from the Addams Family franchise. Like the sentient human hand called Thing, the mechanical limb can scurry around and operate on its own—in ways a ...

Forward-looking: When engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) set out to rethink the human hand, they removed one of its defining constraints: attachment. The result is ...