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Past development of robotic handling systems has focused on making them like the human hand and equipping them with technologies such as machine learning. The new two-jawed parallel plate gripper is ...

The research suggests that copying the hairy grips of ants’ mouthparts could improve robots’ ability to pick up and move objects. Traditionally, robot grippers have been made to mimic human hands, but ...

That’s because the tape is both robust and flexible; can be stored in a small container when retracted; and can reach far ...

[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 ...

A team of robotics experts at UC San Diego has developed a robotic gripper based on measuring tape. The tape is a good material for grippers because it is both strong and flexible.

But to engineer, this game was an inspiration, suggesting that measuring tape could become a great material for a robotic gripper. The grippers would be a particularly good fit for agriculture ...