The Zimmer Group has designed a custom gripper that enables one robot to handle both a crankshaft and an engine block.

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 ...

Robot arms and grippers do important work every hour of every day. They’re used in production lines around the world, toiling virtually ceaselessly outside of their designated maintenance windows.

The study, which analyzed human motion principles and successfully applied them to a robotic gripper, is published in the journal Science Robotics. This research was motivated by the human ...

Even if you've built one of the world's most advanced insect-inspired micro air vehicles (MAVs), it ultimately won't be that useful if it can't stick a good landing. That's why scientists at Harvard ...

Harvard’s tiny flying robot, known as the RoboBee, has just gotten a major upgrade that makes landing much safer and smoother ...

A team of robotics experts at UC San Diego has developed a robotic gripper based on measuring tape. The tape is a good material for grippers because it is both strong and flexible.

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 ...

Germany’s Center Construction Robotics’ MAXX – Mobile Assembly X-System took home the bauma Innovation Award for Research.

That’s because the tape is both robust and flexible; can be stored in a small container when retracted; and can reach far ...

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 ...