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 was created with this fact in mind, as it ...

Soft grippers are everywhere in nature. Elephant trunks, lizard tongues, octopus arms and human hands are just a few of the biological innovations capable of grasping and manipulating delicate objects ...

CARLSBAD, Calif., Feb. 14, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SMAC Moving Coil Actuators introduced details for their new MGR6 Series Micro Gripper. The SMAC MGR6 Series Micro Gripper has a very low moving mass ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Grippers or end effectors are an essential tool integrated with robotic arms for implementing grasping and manipulating functions in a variety of tasks, ranging from picking up ...

[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 ...