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 ...

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 ...

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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Jun 02, 2024: Introducing the hybrid-driven robotic origami gripper (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University have unveiled a novel hybrid-driven origami gripper, designed to ...

Unlike their octopus cousins, a cuttlefish’s 10 tentacles aren’t necessarily equally sized. While the small cephalopod possesses four same-length pairs, its other two appendages extend and ...

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 ...

In November 2017, we showed you [Chris Annin]’s open-source 6-DOF robot arm. Since then he’s been improving the arm and making it more accessible for anyone who doesn’t get to pla… ...

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 ...

"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 ...

ONROBOT launched the MG10 out-of-the-box magnetic gripper for material handling, assembly, and machine tending, fully compatible with all major robot brands.The MG10 offers adjustable force and grip ...