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Robotic hand grasping objects

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Watch a highly dexterous robotic hand use scissors and tweezers

A highly dexterous, human-like robotic hand with fingertip touch sensors can delicately hold eggs, use tweezers to pick up computer chips and crush drink cans

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Can Elon Musk and Tesla really build a humanoid robot in 2022?

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Can Elon Musk and Tesla really build a humanoid robot in 2022?

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robotic fish

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Robotic fish scares invasive species so badly that it cannot breed

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Robot hand

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Sticky robot hand inspired by geckos combines delicacy and strength

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robot hand

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Robotic hand can crush beer cans and hold eggs without breaking them

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Robots can use their own whirring to echolocate and avoid collisions

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Robots can use their own whirring to echolocate and avoid collisions

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Robot team

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Team of underground rescue robots wins $2 million DARPA prize

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4d robot

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4D-printed robot self-assembles into a tube and rolls up hills

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Watch a one-legged robot hop about as researchers try to knock it over

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Watch a one-legged robot hop about as researchers try to knock it over

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An artificial muscle made of a stretched shape memory polymer contracts upon heating, bending a mannequin's arm

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Wooden robot arm is powered by plastic muscles

A new polymer that stores energy when it is stretched and deformed has been used as an artificial muscle to bend the elbow joint of a simple wooden robot

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Tesla is building an AI humanoid robot called Optimus, says Elon Musk

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Snake-like robot could explore Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus

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Pianists fitted with robotic thumb can learn to play with 11 digits

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3D-printed robotic hand powered by water can play Super Mario Bros

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