Created by Assoc. Prof. Nick Gravish and colleagues at UC San Diego, the mechanical appendage is known as "GRIP-tape," the word GRIP standing for "Grasping and Rolling In-Plane." It grasps objects ...

Named GRIP-tape—short for Grasping and Rolling In-Plane, the gripper’s soft, adaptable structure ... The gripper can handle everything from single rubber balls and tomatoes to whole tomato ...

The grippers would be a particularly good fit for agriculture applications, as their extremities are soft enough to grab ... They call their robot GRIP-tape, with GRIP serving as an acronym ...

The grippers would be a particularly good fit for agricultural applications, as their extremities are soft enough to grab fragile fruits ... They call their robot GRIP-tape, with GRIP serving as an ...