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 ...

The Zimmer Group has designed a custom gripper that enables one robot to handle both a crankshaft and an engine block.

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.

In a paper published in Science Robotics, we demonstrated these tools could grip, pull and cut tissue ... clinical trials where we simulated the mechanical properties of the brain tissue they ...

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