A lamprey’s mouth has inspired a new suction device that can grip in air and underwater. The design aims to solve a ...

Soft robotic grippers have some interesting use cases, but the industrial options are not cheap. [James Bruton] was fascinated by the $4000 “bean bag” gripper from Empire Robotics, so he decided to ...

A robotic grasper with fewer moving parts is hitting the market, and it doesn't even have fingers. The Versaball relies on jamming transition to pick up and move objects with a minimum of hassle.

In the world of robotics, sometimes it's the small advancements that make the biggest impact. For years, robots in manufacturing environments or production lines have been in cages in order to protect ...

Generally speaking, robotic grippers are designed to handle specific objects. This is ideal for assembly lines, where every object the robot interacts with is exactly the same size and shape. But what ...

Back in 2010, we first heard about a clever device known as the robotic universal jamming gripper. With its business end composed of a party balloon filled with coffee grounds, it could form a secure ...

Robotic hands are usually just that -- hands-- but some researchers from the University of Chicago and Cornell University (with a little help from iRobot) have taken a decidedly different approach for ...

A seemingly simple task for humans — picking up objects of various shapes — can be quite complex for robots. A new shape-shifting technology could soon change that. A new robotic gripper consists of a ...