WORCESTER — Well before Howard Products Inc.’s sheet metal shop installed a robotic arm that welds aluminum, its former owner recognized how technology would change his small fabrication business.

In many cases, the robotic grippers that move these parts weigh more than the parts they are moving. This is especially true with parts that move large but relatively lightweight objects like sheet ...

A two-finger parallel gripper features a patent-pending design that allows automated finger/end effector changes without changing the gripper body. KURT WORKHOLDING, exhibiting at IMTS 2022 – booth ...

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Minneapolis-based Kurt Workholding announced the launch of its new RV24 Robotic Gripper—a two-finger parallel gripper featuring a revolutionary patent pending design that allows automated finger/end ...

As a taste of things to come at next month's Hannover Messe trade show in Germany, Festo has revealed three new biomimetic creations: a small colony of ants, a gripper modeled on a chameleon's ...

Five fingers at the end of an arm has turned out to be a fantastic tool for humans, but coordinating so many digits is a lot to ask of a robot. So ...

"This new soft robotic arm replaces the hard, rigid arms that come standard on most submersibles, enabling our soft robotic grippers to reach and interact with sea life with much greater ease ...