This invertebrate gripper uses air pressure to grab onto objects. The secret is all in the design. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. If you’ve got a 3D printer you can follow this guide to ...

The human hand is an amazing machine that can pick up, move and place objects easily, but for a robot, this "gripping" is a vexing challenge. Opting for simple elegance, a team of researchers from ...

[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 ...

Festo says its new HPSX soft gripper is designed to solve long-standing challenges in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.

Grippers have become an important part of material handling in industries ranging from electronics manufacturing to automotive assembly. In North America alone, for example, the gripper market is ...

Use of robots—both collaborative and industrial—has been growing across industry, particularly in industries without a strong history of industrial robot use. As a result, not all of these industries ...

Modern robotics and their grippers (a subtype of end-of-arm tooling or end effectors) are similar to human hands in that they use integrated mechanisms and controls. Photo courtesy Schunk. What is a ...