Weighing about two-thirds of a pound, the gripper uses three cables to move 3D-printed ... Luo on a robotic apple gripper, he had his parents videotape their work, so he could model his gripper ...

An company called Soft Robotics has developed an inflatable, cephalopod-inspired gripper made of pliable polymer ... we discuss how WIRED was able to legally 3D-print the same gun allegedly ...

As is the case with any other electrical device, the less energy that a robot uses to perform its assigned duties, the better. A new soft robotic gripper ... device is 3D printed all in one ...

[Gengzhi He et. al.] may have been playing that game in the lab at UC San Diego when they hit upon the idea for a new kind of low-cost robotic gripper. Four motors, four strips of measuring tape ...

Programmed with a 3D model of the skyscraper ... allowing us to spin a Lego around in our hands. But a robot with a gripper typically has only a single degree of freedom, he says, which mandates ...

Conventional robotic grippers struggle ... current methods for adapting these grippers to complex geometries rely on complex control and planning generated by data-based models.

Mr. Jelly Hands is an attempt to solve the ever-vexing gripper problem in robotics: that is, the challenge of designing something that grabs as well as a human can. The problem is not only that ...