Last year we looked at a universal robotic gripper, which was made by filling an elastic membrane with coffee grounds. The versatile gripper, which is attached to a robotic arm, was able to pick up a ...

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While creating robotic grippers to pick up objects that are all the same shape and consistency is relatively easy, difficulties arise when trying to create one versatile enough to handle a wider ...

One of the world's most versatile robot hands doesn't look like a hand at all. iRobot's universal robotic gripper is an elastic ball filled with grainy materials - like a bean bag chair in miniature.

Strawberries are delicate and hard to harvest—easily bruised and often hidden under a canopy of leaves. This creates ...

UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering students have developed a new robot hand that picks fruit and changes light bulbs using just measuring tape as “fingers.” Called “GRIP-tape,” a backronym for ...

New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could help robots get a literal grip. Two research groups from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) today shared ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The characteristic light-blue jointed collaborative robot arms from Universal Robots (UR) will be spotted hard at work throughout IMTS in Chicago from September ...

This makes it appropriate for precision assembly tasks, while its sealed design ensures reliability in tough manufacturing conditions. Grip force is 60-130 N (14-27 lbs), form-fit grip payload is 5 kg ...

Picking things up is a surprisingly difficult task for robots, especially because the best gripper we know of—a human hand—is really difficult to imitate. A group of researchers have passed on ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Soft Robotics Inc. announces that the advanced capabilities of Soft Robotics’ technology are now available on all Universal Robots as a Universal Robots Plus ...