Give them a hand. A team of Swiss robo-scientists has made a creepy mechanical hand that can scuttle along different surfaces like the love child of The Terminator and “The Addams Family”‘s adorably ...

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 ...

If The Addams Family was a science fiction show, “Thing” might look something like this. Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can not only skitter about on its fingertips, it can also bend ...

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) ...

Only a couple weeks removed from seeing a bunch of weird robots at CES, scientists have unveiled a new innovation in the world of creepy robotics — the detachable crawling robotic hand. Of course, one ...

Although it wasn’t apparently designed with this in mind, it seems particularly fortuitous that this walking robotic hand was released in time for Halloween. Designed by researchers from ETH Zurich, ...