It's a game a lot of us played as children—and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would ...

The technology is under continuous refinement in research and Ph.D. projects, which has enabled the Saarbrücken researchers ...

Sensitive grippers are needed to harvest fruit and vegetables without causing damage. Such a gripper does not have to be ...

The Zimmer Group has designed a custom gripper that enables one robot to handle both a crankshaft and an engine block.

A team of robotics experts at UC San Diego has developed a robotic gripper based on measuring tape. The tape is a good material for grippers because it is both strong and flexible.

He designed his gripper in blender, and printed it out with his Ultimaker 3D printer. The material is flexible PLA. Three plastic “fingers” wrap around the object being gripped. The fingers ...

A flexible belt stretches between the finger tip and the base of the gripper, which can be tensioned to actuate the fingertip for pinching, or provide even force across the inside of the gripper ...

Steel measuring tape is an interesting material, in that it's rigid enough to hold its shape when extended, but flexible enough that it gives way under pressure. Scientists have taken advantage of ...

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That’s because the tape is both robust and flexible; can be stored in a small container when retracted; and can reach far when extended. After a series of trial-and-error experiments, the engineers ...