An AI system trained on videos of operations successfully guided a robot to carry out gall bladder surgery on a dead pig, ...

This gripper uses a flexible membrane full of granular material which can form around the item to be picked up. The air is then sucked out of the membrane which cases the grains to be pulled ...

Robot gripper design is an active research area due to its wide spread applicability in automation, especially for high-precision micro-machining. This paper deals with a multiobjective optimization ...

[Tazer] built a small desktop-sized robotic arm, and it was more or less functional. However, he wanted to improve its ability to pick things up, and attaching a pneumatic gripper seemed like the p… ...

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By observing ants moving objects, researchers have developed an end effector that could make better robot grippers.

Energy remains a significant factor in industrial production processes. High levels of energy consumption make production more expensive and exacerbate the climate crisis. A new type of robot ...

Motors and end effectors come in many shapes and sizes but, compared to actuators that focus on position control, end effectors commonly also integrate force sensing to ensure that objects being ...

Robot trajectories used for learning end-to-end robot policies typically contain end-effector and gripper position, workspace images, and language. Policies learned from such trajectories are ...

3D-printed mini-actuators can move small soft robots, lock them into new shapes Date: June 11, 2024 Source: North Carolina State University Summary: Researchers have demonstrated miniature soft ...

This work introduces a novel current-controlled electromagnetic actuator that employs copper coils and permanent magnets to produce substantial driving forces. The actuator can serve as a building ...