The Reachy 2 robot is designed to be friendly and approachable, inviting natural interaction and is perfect for research, ...

[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 ...

Tazer] built a small desktop-sized robotic arm, and it was more or less functional. However, he wanted to improve its ability to pick things up, and attaching a pneumatic gripper seemed like the ...

Mimicking the actions of ants’ hairy jaws could make robots better at picking up objects and moving them around, researchers have found. A prototype “hairy gripper” based on the mouths of ...

Scientists have developed a ‘hairy robotic gripper’ inspired by ant jaws in a research ... The researchers fitted an aluminium two-jawed parallel plate gripper with four rows of ‘hairs’ made of ...

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 ...

Jaws of success: the new robotic gripper based on ant mandibles could use used in environmental clean-up as well as in construction and agriculture (courtesy: iStock) Researchers at the University of ...