A prototype “hairy gripper” based on the mouths of ants has already been developed and tested with “excellent results”, ...

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Robot arms and grippers do important work every hour of every day. They’re used in production lines around the world, toiling virtually ceaselessly outside of their designated maintenance windows.

OnRobot releases VGP30, a vacuum gripper designed for palletizing boxes and handling various surfaces, with a 30kg payload ...

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh in the UK have built a prototype “hairy robotic gripper” that is inspired by the hairs found on ant jaws. Ants are not only excellent nest builders but are ...

For all the work done since the dawn of robotics, there is still no match ... at Koreatech is a step closer with their ingenious BLT gripper, which can pinch with precision or grasp a larger ...

Taken together, these industrial robot arms consume multiple gigawatts of electrical power. Many of the gripper systems work pneumatically with compressed air, which can be unpleasantly loud.