Engineers create GRIP-tape, a soft, low-cost robotic gripper made from measuring tape, ideal for safely handling delicate ...

[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 ...

The robot gripper has 7 degrees of freedom (2 DOF for each finger) and a weight of 1.95kg. The length of the hand is 248.8mm, and each finger has its own maximum admissible length of 155mm. It also ...

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 ...

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 ...