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 ...

Technology breakthroughs are allowing DHL and other companies to automate the laborious, injury-prone work of loading and unloading.

[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… ...

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 ...

The food and beverage industry revolves around food safety, regulations and higher throughput. Food producers are adopting cobot and robot technology and finding applications in the plant: product ...

Vacuum grippers hold boxes in a warehouse. Adding pneumatically based grippers would give this robot greater flexibility to pick and sort mixed-product packaging.

Conventional robotic grippers struggle to adapt to complex shapes and sizes, such as those found in crops. This has created a demand for more adaptable robotic grippers that can be utilized in ...

Researchers have unveiled a novel hybrid-driven origami gripper, designed to tackle the challenge of grasping and manipulating objects with unprecedented versatility and precision.