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

Called “GRIP-tape,” a backronym for Grasping and Rolling in Plane, this newly developed product demonstrates that a high-tech ...

Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...