This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. One man, one robotic arm, dozens of electrodes—these are the elements of a breakthrough experiment that’s ...

HEFEI — Inspired by the agility of elephant trunks and octopus tentacles, a team of scientists from a Chinese university has developed a highly dexterous spiral soft robot arm comparable to the ...

HEFEI -- Inspired by the agility of elephant trunks and octopus tentacles, a team of scientists from a Chinese university has developed a highly dexterous spiral soft robot's arm comparable to the ...

A Russian cosmonaut took a short ride at the end of a robotic arm to jettison spent equipment that he and a crewmate collected during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (Dec.