While creating robotic grippers to pick up objects that are all the same shape and consistency is relatively easy, difficulties arise when trying to create one versatile enough to handle a wider ...

One of the world's most versatile robot hands doesn't look like a hand at all. iRobot's universal robotic gripper is an elastic ball filled with grainy materials - like a bean bag chair in miniature.

If you've got ground coffee and a few party balloons lying around, you have the ingredients for a universal robot gripper, according to researchers at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, ...

ODENSE, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Purple Robotics, founded by key developers behind the world’s first collaborative robot (cobot), has launched the PR10, an innovative vacuum gripper designed for ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SMC Corporation of America, a leading global pneumatics and industrial automation components manufacturer, has joined Universal Robots’ UR+ program, launching the new UR+ ...

In the world of robotics, sometimes it's the small advancements that make the biggest impact. For years, robots in manufacturing environments or production lines have been in cages in order to protect ...

Engineers from Cornell University and the University of Chicago have built a robotic hand that can grip objects and throw them. It can shoot hoops, toss bolts and ...