Robot arms and grippers do important work every hour of every day. They’re used in production lines around the world, toiling virtually ceaselessly outside of their designated maintenance windows.

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 ...

Researchers of the IRIM Lab at Koreatech is a step closer with their ingenious BLT gripper, which can pinch with precision or grasp a larger object with evenly distributed force. (Video embedded ...

Steel measuring tape is an interesting material, in that it's rigid enough to hold its shape when extended, but flexible enough that it gives way under pressure. Scientists have taken advantage of ...

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.

A prototype "hairy robotic gripper" has been developed by the University of Edinburgh, in a project that includes as partners the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Ocado Group and Amazon ...

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 ...

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

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 ...