This allows the gripper to be used in various ways, including smoothly shifting between pinching and grasping without dropping a object. We love the relative simplicity of the mechanism ...

The vacuum gripper mechanism is achieved by arranging bundles of ultrathin SMA wires into a circular muscle around a thin metal disk that can be made to flip up or down, like a frog clicker toy.

Robot arms and grippers do important work every hour of ... while extension is achieved via a hydraulic mechanism. In the spider’s body, a chamber filled with blood expands and contracts to ...

Engineers at Saarland University recently used lightweight, shape-memory materials to create a non-pneumatic robotic gripper.

The vacuum gripper mechanism is achieved by arranging bundles of ultrathin SMA wires into a circular muscle around a thin metal disc that can be made to flip up or down, like a frog clicker toy.