VideoFesto's robotic ExoHand also works as a human augmentation device. It may be time to jettison the notion that robots in the future will have grippers or claws for hands. The German ...

For example, more capable robotic hands could be useful in computer assembly where assembling microchips requires a level of precision that currently only human hands can achieve.

Robot grippers and suction cups can pick and place items, but more dexterous tasks such as assembly, insertion, reorientation, packaging, etc. have remained in the realm of human manipulation.

Robots can lift heavy loads and work nonstop, tirelessly moving boxes or assembling parts on an assembly line. But ask them to perform something simple for a human, like turning a door handle ...

Researchers designed a robot that doesn't need visual data to get a handle on objects like a mini disco ball.

Fortunately, Valve was kind enough to share it with us in the above video which outlines how the assembly line came together and how it's able to build the Steam Controller without any human ...