Conventional robotic grippers struggle to adapt to complex shapes and sizes, such as those found in crops. This has created a demand for more adaptable robotic grippers that can be utilized in ...

Stringman uses ceiling cables, cameras, and a robotic gripper to collect clutter, showing a lower-cost path for practical ...

An engineer has developed an open-source ceiling-mounted robotic claw designed to tackle one of ...

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 ...

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, ...

Fish-scale-like gaps help soft robotic grippers sense bending, texture, and firmness through small contact changes.

(A) Perching behavior of biological and artificial systems. (B) Operational principle of our robotic gripper. (C) Energy variation of MTRG during operation. (D) Comparison of switching frequency f and ...

Researchers used stretchable fiber-optic sensors to create a soft robot gripper that can predict the ripeness of strawberries by touch, then gently twist them off their branch or vine without causing ...

A disciplined approach to industrial robot selection is to treat robots as engineered mechanical systems that must fit a ...