Called “GRIP-tape,” a backronym for Grasping and Rolling in Plane, this newly developed product demonstrates that a high-tech ...

As with many such projects, control is where things get actually difficult. It’s one thing to make a robot hand flex its fingers in and out, and another thing to make it move in a useful ...

Commercial flex sensors are pretty expensive, so he experimented with some homemade sensors ... too. For the robot hand, he used balsa wood and hinges for each joint. Flexible thread provided ...

The proposed robot, dubbed GRIP-tape, which stands, in part, for grasping and rolling in-plane, reportedly solves a problem ...