Researchers at MIT have developed a new slender robotic finger designed to sense buried items. The tech uses tactile sensing to identify objects underground, and researchers believe it could one day ...

Over the years, robots have gotten quite good at identifying objects -- as long as they're out in the open. Discerning buried items in granular material like sand is a taller order. To do that, a ...

Lately, we've seen some exciting advances in the development of robots that can interact with objects in interesting ways, ranging from grippers that work like elephant trunks to coil around odd items ...

Researchers developed a 'Digger Finger' robot that digs through granular material, like sand and gravel, and senses the shapes of buried objects. The technology could aid in disarming buried bombs or ...

Discerning buried items in granular material like sand is a taller order. To do that, a robot would need fingers that were slender enough to penetrate the sand, mobile enough to wriggle free when sand ...