The National Intellectual Property Administration recently disclosed that Suzhou Xinghai Tu Power Technology Co., Ltd. has obtained a patent titled "A Structure for Robot Grippers" (Authorization ...

Robot arms and grippers do important work every hour of every day. They’re used in production lines around the world, toiling virtually ceaselessly outside of their designated maintenance windows.

Robots with gecko-inspired hands are becoming more important during the rise of on-demand-everything. That's prompting a leader in robotic end-of-arm tooling to expand its lineup of the ...

Opting for simple elegance, researchers have bypassed traditional designs based around the human hand and fingers, and created a versatile gripper using everyday ground coffee and a latex party ...

For all the work done since the dawn of robotics, there is still no match for the human hand in terms of its dexterity and adaptability. Researchers of the IRIM Lab at Koreatech is a step closer with ...

Shanghai Benyao Technology Co., Ltd. applied for a patent titled "An Integrated Vision System Gripper and Robot" in August 2025, with the publication number CN120606406A. This move indicates that the ...

Robotic gripper could be used in agriculture, human rescue operations or personal assistive devices, food and the scientific and resource exploration industries, as per the study in Advanced Materials ...

It’s not uncommon for robot-building engineers to take inspiration from one of Mother Nature’s designs, but this might be the first time we’ve seen one of her creations, a Venus flytrap plant, used to ...

As anyone who has grown climbing plants will know, the things are great at grasping onto thin objects such as strings or bamboo poles. A new robotic gripper, inspired by such plants, could find use in ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – The human hand is an amazing machine that can pick up, move and place objects easily, but for a robot, this "gripping" mechanism is a vexing challenge. Opting for simple elegance, ...