And the question we'll be answering in this episode is how to choose robot grippers. Now joining me to answer this question is Michael Guelker with Festo, a supplier of industrial automation ...

[Tazer] built a small desktop-sized robotic arm, and it was more or less functional. However, he wanted to improve its ability to pick things up, and attaching a pneumatic gripper seemed like the ...

[Tazer] built a small desktop-sized robotic arm, and it was more or less functional. However, he wanted to improve its ability to pick things up, and attaching a pneumatic gripper seemed like the ...

The gripper can also change to fingers that are specially designed to change out the jaws, he said. The jaws have pins and ...

Traditional robot grippers usually rely on compressed air (pneumatic systems), which use significant energy, are noisy, bulky ...

A new soft robotic gripper was created with this fact in ... at the University of California-San Diego, the experimental pneumatic device is 3D printed all in one step, so no assembly or other ...

The gripper designed by engineers ... Instead of robot hands, they use suction cups and deflatable balloons. Or, in this case, pneumatic tentacles. This means that Mr. Jelly Hands doesn’t ...

Detailed in a recent paper published in Cyborg Bionic Systems, researchers combined pneumatic and cable ... Of course, the robotic gripper isn’t nearly as agile or adaptable as its cuttlefish ...

Industrial robots are ubiquitous ... This means they don't require a steady flow of energy to operate like pneumatic grippers do and they're much quieter, reducing both energy consumption and ...

As first detailed earlier this month in Nature Communications, a team at North Carolina State University recently developed a new soft robot gripper sensitive enough to handle water droplets and ...