Robotic claws, or grippers, are notoriously hard to use — remember trying to pick up a toy with an arcade claw machine as a kid (or an adult)? But a new soft gripper designed by researchers at the ...

Engineers have long looked to nature for smarter designs, but few inspirations are as unexpected as clingy garden vines. Now, researchers at MIT and Stanford have turned that botanical quirk into a ...

If you’ve ever played the claw game, you probably never thought about the scientific applications of that arcade game designed to take your money. But engineers at Harvard University must have. A team ...

Taking inspiration from nature, researchers designed a new type of soft, robotic gripper that uses a collection of thin tentacles to entangle and ensnare objects, similar to how jellyfish collect ...

A micro-scale gripper uses a liquid-permeable surface to handle fragile components like chips and thin films without applying mechanical force or contact. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Micromanipulation may ...

An invention similar to an elephant's trunk has potential benefits for many industries where handling delicate objects is essential, say the researchers who developed it. Nature has inspired engineers ...

If you’ve ever played the claw game at an arcade, you know how hard it is to grab and hold onto objects using robotics grippers. Imagine how much more nerve-wracking that game would be if, instead of ...

(Nanowerk News) If you’ve ever played the claw game at an arcade, you know how hard it is to grab and hold onto objects using robotics grippers. Imagine how much more nerve-wracking that game would be ...