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 ...

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Exploring the convergence of advanced grippers, 3D vision, and sophisticated AI that is enabling robots to handle an ever-wider variety of items with near-human skill The relentless surge of ...

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This paper presents a hybrid tele-manipulation system, comprising of a sensorized 3-D-printed soft robotic gripper and a soft fabric-based haptic glove that aim at improving grasping manipulation and ...

Grasping strategy of many different kinds of target objects is vital in a wide range of automatic robotic manipulations. Among the many potential applications for a robot arm with a parallel gripper, ...

June 26, 2025 — Quantum computing just got a significant boost thanks to researchers at the University of Osaka, who developed a much more efficient way to create "magic states" a key component ...

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Computers and Internet research news.June 12, 2025 — A team of Danish and German scientists has launched a major project to create new technology that could form the foundation of the future ...