Past development of robotic handling systems has focused on making them like the human hand and equipping them with ...

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In tests with 30 different household objects, the addition of 'hairs' increased the prototype gripper's grasp success rate ...

By observing ants moving objects, researchers have developed an end effector that could make better robot grippers.

Suspecting that squirrels did the same with their legs when landing, the biology and robotics teams worked in parallel to confirm ... that it had no ability to grip with its feet, Yim said.

Suspecting that squirrels did the same with their legs when landing, the biology and robotics teams worked in parallel to confirm this and show ... despite the fact that it had no ability to grip with ...

The research suggests that copying the hairy grips of ants’ mouthparts could improve robots’ ability to pick up and move ...