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New robotic grippers are flexible enough to handle soft and fragile objects as well as heavier ones. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a robotic gripping device that is ...

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 ...

OnRobot has announced its new VGP30 vacuum gripper. This powerful and robust 30 kg (66 lbs.) payload gripper is designed to excel at palletizing boxes and handling irregular shapes and porous surfaces ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University have unveiled a novel hybrid-driven origami gripper, designed to tackle the challenge of grasping and manipulating objects with ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have devised a new way to design ...

The invention of a wooden robotic gripper can be a viable alternative to using traditional soft plastics or metal. It also upends traditional robotics design. Researchers from the National University ...

(Nanowerk News) In the horticultural world, some vines are especially grabby. As they grow, the woody tendrils can wrap around obstacles with enough force to pull down entire fences and trees.

ROSE consists of a cup-shaped chamber with two soft layers. Rotating the inner layer leads to the formation of wrinkle-like inward folds, shrinking the central space, which allows ROSE to gently grasp ...