By taking inspiration from origami, this robot gripper can safely pick up and hold delicate objects while at the same time lift more than 100x its own weight.

Soft Robotics, a company that develops enterprise level soft robotic grippers for a variety of materials handling and pick and place applications, is on a roll. After securing a high level ...

A robotic gripper inspired by the adhesive properties of gecko hands will soon be adorning robots around the world. We've written about OnRobot's Gecko Gripper before, but its commercial ...

Called “GRIP-tape,” a backronym for Grasping and Rolling in Plane, this newly developed product demonstrates that a high-tech solution can be created using low-cost materials, such as off-the ...

Researchers from the RoboFood project made a battery you can eat that will someday power an edible robot - here’s why we want them.

Volkswagen recently showed the world its dreamed-up future where robots with digital faces roam around parking garages to charge EVs using traveling battery packs.

Four motors, four strips of measuring tape (doubled up)– one robot hand. With the lovely backronym “GRIP-tape” — standing for Grasping and Rolling in Plane — you get a sense for what ...

So inspired by the stretchy tongue on a gecko, engineers at Festo have come with a bulbous-looking water-filled gripper that’s just as adept at picking things up as the human hand is.

The battery pack’s sandwich structure reduces risk of battery safety incidents, and CARL the charging robot can be summoned via smartphone to charge your EV.

New research shows that copying the actions of an ants' jaws could help improve robots grip. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have used the movement of ants' hairy mouths to develop a ...