Last year we looked at a universal robotic gripper, which was made by filling an elastic membrane with coffee grounds. The versatile gripper, which is attached to a robotic arm, was able to pick up a ...

While creating robotic grippers to pick up objects that are all the same shape and consistency is relatively easy, difficulties arise when trying to create one versatile enough to handle a wider ...

If you've got ground coffee and a few party balloons lying around, you have the ingredients for a universal robot gripper, according to researchers at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, ...

One of the world's most versatile robot hands doesn't look like a hand at all. iRobot's universal robotic gripper is an elastic ball filled with grainy materials - like a bean bag chair in miniature.

Tesollo and Techman said their joint offering is suitable for high-mix, low-volume production. For example, it can be used in ...

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PHD has released new accessory for seamless integration of pneumatic grippers on collaborative robots. The PHD Pneu-Connect™ connects directly to the tool port on the robot arm making it easy to ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SMC Corporation of America, a leading global pneumatics and industrial automation components manufacturer, has joined Universal Robots’ UR+ program, launching the new UR+ ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Soft Robotics Inc. announces that the advanced capabilities of Soft Robotics’ technology are now available on all Universal Robots as a Universal Robots Plus ...