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A prototype “hairy gripper” based on the mouths of ants has already been developed and tested with “excellent results”, ...

At the same time, industrial robots are increasingly being deployed in collaborative ... gripper while also providing 30% more total stroke. It is a lightweight parallel-finger gripper with a payload ...

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

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

[Chiprobot] has created an amazing compliant gripper. Designing robot hands (or end effectors) can be a perilous task. It is easy to give robots big, good, strong hands. Strong grippers have to ...

By observing ants moving objects, researchers have developed an end effector that could make better robot grippers.

For all the work done since the dawn of robotics, there is still no match ... at Koreatech is a step closer with their ingenious BLT gripper, which can pinch with precision or grasp a larger ...

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