Replacing the pneumatic cylinders in a robotic gripper with linear motors enabled the robot to safely pick up objects ranging from bricks to champagne glasses and tissue packs. In large machinery such ...

The UNSW Sydney team's thin, flat, lightweight gripper is able to retrieve various objects—even from confined hollow spaces An elephant's trunk is its most versatile appendage—and researchers' latest ...

A research team from Seoul National University has proposed a gripper capable of moving multiple objects together to enhance the efficiency of pick-and-place processes, inspired by humans' ...

The proposed bistable gripper can maintain its grasp even without continuous energy input, while also being able to modulate its activation force, representing a new paradigm in robotic gripper design ...

"With its quick response, programmable interaction forces, and simple yet efficient design, our robotic gripper opens new avenues for next-generation robotic systems," says Sun Yat-Sen University's Dr ...

Trinamic, now part of Maxim Integrated, demonstrated a range of power control solutions in the forefront of APEC, including its latest solutions that simplify the development of end-of-arm tooling ...

Alejandro López, the Electric Automation product manager at Festo Corp., demonstrates Festo’s agnostic approach to linear axes, ensuring compatibility with cobots from different manufacturers in a ...

While robotic arms can handle a wide variety of tasks, the specific job at hand will have a major influence on the type of end effector used. For sorting ferromagnetic parts an electromagnet might be ...