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 ...

Millirobots with tunable adhesive microstructures grip and release solids and liquids in both air and underwater environments ...

Robotic grippers have become essential across many ... of ROSE in agriculture by using it to harvest strawberries and mushrooms. ROSE achieved high success rates in picking up these crops in ...

By growing the mushroom’s mycelium, or rootlike threads, into the robot’s hardware, a team led by Cornell University researchers has engineered two types of robots that sense and respond to ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...