More information: Tommaso Proietti et al, Restoring arm function with a soft robotic wearable for individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Science Translational Medicine (2023).

Engineers from Harvard University have developed a soft, wearable robotic device for movement assistance. The robot combines ...

Robotic arms, also called industrial robots, are also referred to as mechanical arms. These are devices whose functionality is the same as that of human hands. They have several joints which enable ...

Having lived with an ALS diagnosis since 2018, Kate Nycz can tell you firsthand what it's like to slowly lose motor function for basic tasks. "My arm can get to maybe 90 degrees, but then it ...

A team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has developed a soft robotic wearable capable of ...

Meant for the ongoing Artemis missions, COLDArm is designed to withstand temperatures of minus-280 degrees Fahrenheit during the Moon's lunar night.

Using only its brainpower, a monkey can direct a robotic arm to pluck a marshmallow from a skewer and stuff it into its mouth.

A robotic arm exoskeleton being tested in Spokane is reaching to advance recovery for stroke patients.

According to Monday’s announcement, the Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm—or COLDArm—project “combines several new technologies to create a robotic arm system that can function in ...

In order to function safely alongside human workers, robotic arms shouldn't be hard and unyielding. An experimental new arm was designed with that fact in mind, as it mimics soft n' squishy ...

Space & Spaceflight An Inspector Gadget-Like Robotic Arm Is Headed to the International Space Station Capable of moving like an inchworm, the “smart spacewalker” will launch to the ISS on July 15.