[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 ...

An often-overlooked robot component that plays a critical role in shaping the efficiency and sustainability of these mechanical marvels is the end of arm gripper. Traditionally crafted from heavy ...

Energy remains a significant factor in industrial production processes. High levels of energy consumption make production more expensive and exacerbate the climate crisis. A new type of robot ...

It's designed to be mounted on the end of a traditional robotic arm. In order to minimize the chances of leaks that would allow air to escape from it, each layer of the gripper is printed in one ...

A lamprey’s mouth has inspired a new suction device that can grip in air and underwater. The design aims to solve a ...

The company has developed three interchangeable end bits – or effectors – for the robo-arm so far, shaping up as a gripper, edging disc head (strimmer) and a trimmer head. The last two are is pretty ...

A new gripper robot grasps by reflex. Rather than start from scratch after a failed attempt, the bot adapts in the moment to reflexively roll, palm, or pinch an object to get a better hold. When ...

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 engineers at the University of California San ...