Although the gripper doesn't require any electricity to operate, it does have to be hooked up to a source of compressed air. That air flows through a rubber hose and into the gripper. When the middle ...

In the gripper's neutral default state, the beam is flat and non-tensioned. When it's time to grasp an object, however, the shafts get rotated, causing the beam to bend slightly upward. This puts it ...

For all the work done since the dawn of robotics, there is still no match for the human hand in terms of its dexterity and adaptability. Researchers of the IRIM Lab at Koreatech is a step closer with ...

Despite thriving development in academic and practical scenarios, multi-joint underactuated manipulators is still struggling with grasp stability, especially in case of heavy or irregular-shaped ...

In nature, there are vines that have the strength to pull down fences and tree branches through their unrelenting hold. Today ...

Designing robotic grippers that integrate rich sensing with low degrees of freedom while maintaining high dexterity remains a critical challenge in robotics. Although high-resolution tactile sensing, ...

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 ...

A gripper uses light to pick up, move, and place small parts that other light-based tools cannot easily handle.

I'm not sure when your last spacewalk was, but you probably remember it being a bit difficult to manipulate objects, what with the gloves and the microgravity and all. As such, your tools were ...