Steel measuring tape is an interesting material, in that it's rigid enough to hold its shape when extended, but flexible enough that it gives way under pressure. Scientists have taken advantage of ...

Where previous iterations of "the world's most dexterous humanoid robot hand" have looked quite familiar from a human perspective, the new Shadow Hand – which the company says was developed with ...

Robotic brains have reached near-genius levels, but their hands remain clumsy. Most robots still struggle to retrieve a dropped grape without crushing it South Korea-based Tesollo, which develops ...

What makes a humanoid hand so fascinating? Imagine a robotic gripper delicately assembling intricate components on a factory floor or carefully holding fragile medical instruments during surgery.

Brennan Burns, an automation engineer at Shunk CoLab in North Carolina, gave Machine Design quick demo of automated machine tending at MD&M West 2025. He focused on the Schunk Gripper PGN-plus-P to ...

The proposed bistable gripper can maintain its grasp even without continuous energy input, while also being able to modulate its activation force, representing a new paradigm in robotic gripper design ...