UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering students have developed a new robot hand that picks fruit and changes light bulbs using just measuring tape as “fingers.” Called “GRIP-tape,” a ...

Mimicking the actions of ants’ hairy jaws could make robots better at picking up objects and moving them around, researchers have found. A prototype “hairy gripper” based on the mouths of ...

[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 ...