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Researchers have designed a low-cost, energy-efficient robotic hand that can grasp a range of objects – and not drop them – using just the movement of its wrist and the feeling in its ‘skin’.

New technology developed by MIT uses tactile sensing to identify objects underground, and might one day help disarm land mines or inspect cables. This sharp-tipped robot finger is equipped with tactile sensing to meet the challenge of identifying buried objects.

An advanced robotic arm is more than just beautiful technology. Use of such a prosthesis is not just about confirming, as a conversation with Arie Rommers shows. He has been using a bionic arm, the Bebionic, for some time now. “You can get a really nice bionic arm, but your brain has to control it, so you have to feel good about yourself”