Seven-year-old Faith Lennox never thought much about putting a prosthetic limb where her missing left hand had once been.
Engineering
Mar 31, 2015
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Engineers at Saarland University have taken a leaf out of nature's book by equipping an artificial hand with muscles made from shape-memory wire. The new technology enables the fabrication of flexible and lightweight robot ...
Engineering
Mar 24, 2015
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As we all know, a firm handshake is important in making a good first impression. It's a sure sign of physical strength and, rightly or wrongly, we use it make all manner of judgements about character, personality and sincerity.
Social Sciences
Mar 9, 2015
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New research suggests pre-Homo human ancestral species, such as Australopithecus africanus, used human-like hand postures much earlier than was previously thought.
Archaeology
Jan 22, 2015
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A new cardboard-robotic toolkit allows children to create custom robots they control wirelessly with hand gestures without formal education in programming or electronics.
Robotics
Jan 19, 2015
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Two and a half million years ago, our hominin ancestors in the African savanna crafted rocks into shards that could slice apart a dead gazelle, zebra or other game animal. Over the next 700,000 years, this butchering technology ...
Archaeology
Jan 13, 2015
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Picking up an apple is one of those jobs requiring the delicate touch of the human hand – or its robotic counterpart.
Robotics
Dec 12, 2014
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Much has been thrown at left-handed people—they are quick to anger, quickly scared and, with the exception of heads of state, are more or less life's losers. Much too has been bestowed upon left-handed people—they are ...
For most amputees, the road to a more fun recreactional prosthetic device is slow and costly. However, thanks to a student-led research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, that might be changing, which ...
Engineering
Oct 29, 2014
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With almost all of the U.S. population armed with cellphones – and close to 80 percent carrying a smartphone – mobile phones have become second-nature for most people.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 19, 2014
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