An emerging area of technology is motor augmentation -- using wearable devices like extra robotic body parts to upgrade human motor capabilities beyond their current limits, researchers said.

Scientists show that breathing may be used to control a wearable extra robotic arm in healthy individuals, without hindering control of other parts of the body. Neuroengineer Silvestro Micera ...

But a new study suggests that people can in fact adapt to using additional robotic arms as if the limbs were their own body parts. For decades, scientists have been investigating how human brains ...

Researchers have developed a tiny, flexible robot that could crawl through earthquake rubble to locate survivors or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine. These soft robots, made from ...

In order to extend bodily functions using robotic third and fourth arms, it is important that the arms can be embodied and easily manipulated like the user’s own body parts. A user manipulates the ...

A factory in China is developing hyper-realistic humanoid robots that can chillingly mimic human facial expressions and emotions in scientists' latest attempt to replace workers with machines.

A small robot that can shape-shift and produce heat could incinerate cancer cells or stop bleeding from inside the body. It could also ... at the robot’s metal parts. Changing the frequency ...

Reading and responding to human body language could be a leap for robot-kind if Brooks’ new ... coatings or sanding to make aircraft parts while a human oversees the work, and intervenes only ...

The additional robotic body parts could be designed to boost our capabilities, and the approach could increase productivity, Tamar Makin, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the MRC cognition ...