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 extend before bending. But to engineer, this game was an inspiration, ...

Uncover the unique design of GRIP-tape, a robot hand featuring measuring tape that showcases creativity in engineering.

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 ...

For a robot, the real world is a lot to take in. Making sense of every data point in a scene can take a huge amount of ...

They call their robot GRIP-tape, with GRIP serving as an acronym ... and a faculty member in the UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The gripper has two “fingers ...

At the Engineering Theater, attendees can learn from some of the world's leading robotics developers and component providers.

They call their robot GRIP-tape, with GRIP serving as an acronym for Grasping ... the paper's senior author and a faculty member in the UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have created a set of tiny ...

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

When the Armatron first came out, in 1981, robotics engineers started contacting Watanabe. “I wasn’t so much hearing from ...