Then cut out those diamond shapes, gently squeezing the tubes and snipping across the fold. Note: The finger joints are diamond-shaped holes cut into the cardboard tubes.

How to Make Hydraulic Powered Robotic Arm from Cardboard In this video I show you how to make robotic arm from cardboard, it's quite fun to plaw with. Especially by moving coca cola cans.

As a robotics engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, he’s devoted his research to figuring out how hands work—and how to replicate them in machines.

05/09/2016 | A new computerized system allows novice designers to convert static three-dimensional objects into moving robotic versions made out of materials including cardboard, wood and sheet metal.

A new computerized system allows novice designers to convert static three-dimensional objects into moving robotic versions made out of materials including cardboard, wood and sheet metal.

In the accompanying paper about the hand, Haptic Identification of Objects using a Modular Soft Robotic Gripper, the authors explain how they did it.