Inspired by a childhood game of unspooling measuring tape, engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed ...

It's a game a lot of us played as children—and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would ...

Engineers at Saarland University recently used lightweight, shape-memory materials to create a non-pneumatic robotic gripper.

Robotiq's PowerPick Multi is a multi-cup, dual-zone picking system designed to automate palletizing for variable box sizes, ...

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In tests with 30 different household objects, the addition of 'hairs' increased the prototype gripper's grasp success rate ...

A prototype ‘hairy gripper’ based on the mouths of ants has already been developed and tested. The robotic gripper is inspired by the strength and efficiency of the mouths of ants (Alamy/PA ...

The research suggests that copying the hairy grips of ants’ mouthparts could improve robots’ ability to pick up and move ...

New research shows that copying the actions of an ants' jaws could help improve robots ability to grip. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have studied the the movement of ants' hairy ...

That’s because the tape is both robust and flexible; can be stored in a small container when retracted; and can reach far when extended. After a series of trial-and-error experiments, the engineers ...

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