[Chiprobot] has created an amazing compliant gripper. Designing robot hands (or end effectors) can be a perilous task. It is easy to give robots big, good, strong hands. Strong grippers have to ...

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 ...

They are launching version 3 of their LittleArm robotic arm ... 3D printed part by using a compliant mechanism — that squiggly pattern that allows the gripper to flex into place.

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 ...

Mimicking the actions of ants’ hairy jaws could make robots better at picking up objects and moving them around, researchers have found. A prototype “hairy gripper” based on the mouths of ants has ...

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.

But to engineer, this game was an inspiration, suggesting that measuring tape could become a great material for a robotic gripper. The grippers would be a particularly good fit for agriculture ...

That’s because the tape is both robust and flexible; can be stored in a small container when retracted; and can reach far ...