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

Robotic grippers have become essential across many ... The researchers demonstrated the practical applications of ROSE in agriculture by using it to harvest strawberries and mushrooms.

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, ...

[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 ...

For all the work done since the dawn of robotics, there is still no match ... at Koreatech is a step closer with their ingenious BLT gripper, which can pinch with precision or grasp a larger ...

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 ...

But to engineers at the University of California San Diego, this game was an inspiration, suggesting that measuring tape could become a great material for a robotic gripper. The grippers would be ...