play but the eight- and nine-year-olds peering intently at their computer screens knew the Lego they were using was no toy. “It has wires and gears and stuff,” said Róisín, a third class pupil at ...

A 16-year-old student from Bristol has built an anthropomorphic robotic hand entirely from Lego parts, and it performs almost as well as professional research models. Called the Educational SoftHand-A ...