For many of us, the last—and only—time we've seen a walking hand was Thing in "The Addams Family" movies or TV series. Now there's another. Engineers from the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich have ...

If you grew up watching The Addams Family, you probably remember Thing crawling around as a disembodied hand. Now, researchers have built something remarkably similar. Engineers at ETH Zurich’s Soft ...

A humanoid robot can run, jump, dance, and even perform a backflip, yet ask it to fold a shirt, pick up a wet sponge, or turn a key, and the problem suddenly becomes much harder. That sounds ...

The creepy and kooky robot can type on a keyboard, play a video game, and could help future humanoid robots. By Mack DeGeurin Published Oct 2, 2026 1:03 PM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) ...

Robotic hand walking research from ETH Zurich’s Soft Robotics Lab teaches a five-finger hand to crawl across 14 different ...

A hand attached to the end of an arm is a given for most humans, but what if robots didn’t have to play by the same rules as we do? Researchers from ETH Zurich have turned an off-the-shelf robotic ...

Ex-Tesla Optimus lead Jay Li settled a trade secret lawsuit with Tesla and raised $11M to ship dexterous robot hands from his startup Proception. Proception, a robotics startup founded by former Tesla ...

When the 2026 World Robot Conference opens in Beijing tomorrow — its designated Release Day for product debuts and breakthrough announcements — a South Korean startup will be on the floor ...