Festo says its new HPSX soft gripper is designed to solve long-standing challenges in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.

Biological and synthetic components can be combined to create a robotic gripper. It can even move a considerable amount of ...

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The current world population is estimated to be 7.8 billion, and with the United Nations predicting that number will reach 10.9 billion by the end of this century, the need for food manufacturers to ...

A gentle lifting gripper that could transform healthcare, mobility assistance and even unload heavy cargo. Read on!

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Biohybrid robots that run on real muscle are shifting from science fiction toward workable machines. In labs around the world ...

Someone with a significant background in robotics once told my daughter that robotics is always harder than it looks. She is now studying to be a mechanical engineer and will likely be stealing my ...

Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made ...