Robotics has always drawn a clean line between hands and legs. A robotic arm grips; a legged robot moves. Engineers building a system that needs to do both bolt the two together, pay for both, and ...

Multipurpose body parts could lead to more flexible robot designs ...

Swiss researchers are working on an environmental monitoring robot named Avocado that's been inspired by abseiling spiders. The fruit-shaped bot uses a winch and rotors to lower itself through the ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an untethered robotic hand that walks on its five fingertips, navigates varied ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich designed a walking robotic hand. Robotic hands usually come bolted to the wrist of a mechanical arm, waiting for their humanoid owners to move them over to whatever knob or ...

ETH Zurich has developed a new fetoscope that can be controlled externally using a magnetic field. In tests, the system was more than four times as accurate as conventional instruments. The robot ...

The robot is based on a standard anthropomorphic right hand with five fingers and 20 actuator joints (four on each finger). The researchers installed a compact on-boar ...

ETH Zürich robotics researchers have unveiled a four-legged ANYmal robot capable of navigating complex terrains such as an obstacle course. The robot utilizes highly-trained AI modules for movement, ...

We've seen robot dogs run up hills with luggage, and help fight fires. Now, researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich are putting these mechanical mutts through their paces on the badminton court, ...