If you're trying to capture delicate deep-sea creatures such as sea slugs via camera-guided remote control, you're certainly not going to use hard steel pincers designed for use in the oil and mining ...

(Nanowerk News) Although robotics has reshaped and even redefined many industrial sectors, there still exists a gap between machines and humans in fields such as health and elderly care. For robots to ...

Engineers from National University of Singapore (NUS) have built a robotics system they say can grip various objects, ranging from soft and delicate to bulky and heavy. Designed to be configurable, ...

Jellyfish are about 95% water, which makes them very difficult to study because most of the underwater tools available to marine biologists are clunky, heavy, and often shred jellyfish and other ...

Building machines that replicate the delicate touch of a human hand is a complex undertaking that has seen the development of all kinds of soft robotic grippers, from squishy green blobs to boa ...

Have you ever thought of a robot with a soft grip holding one's sweet icing or ripe fruit that would not crush it? It is no longer an imagination or thought, as researchers from the National ...

Researchers have developed a robotic gripper that combines the adhesive properties of gecko toes and the adaptability of air-powered soft robots to grasp a much wider variety of objects than the state ...

RoboSoft Layouts: (A) Layout of RoboSoft 2021 with four tasks of lifting a heavy, smooth-skinned fruit - watermelon, handling a small, delicate fruit - berry, picking up a coin on a hard surface, ...

Korean engineers and scientists have developed a soft gripper that can be used to lift 100kg, while weighing only 130g. The device is inspired by weaving and can be made at different sizes, always ...