Soft grippers, which are built from flexible materials that can bend and deform, are attracting a lot of attention from ...

Conventional robotic grippers struggle to adapt to complex shapes and sizes, such as those found in crops. This has created a demand for more adaptable robotic grippers that can be utilized in ...

A team of researchers from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has developed a soft robotic ...

Tools that offer early and accurate insight into plant health—and allow individual plant interventions—are key to increasing crop yields as environmental pressures increasingly impact horticulture and ...

Strawberries are delicate and hard to harvest—easily bruised and often hidden under a canopy of leaves. This creates headaches for scientists trying to design robotic harvesters. Now a Washington ...

Researchers in Japan have taken cues from elephants’ trunks to create a soft robotic gripper that can handle delicate objects ...

It's a game a lot of us played as children -- and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. But to engineer, this game was an inspiration, ...

Robotics is a multifaceted technology sector presenting many capabilities to expand into a variety of applications, from automotives and warehousing and logistics, to domestic functions. IDTechEx's ...

Built from flexible, compliant materials, soft robots are gaining relevance for tasks ranging from minimally invasive surgery ...

Researchers have developed a soft mechanical force sensor that enables robots to detect touch ...

Soft grippers, which are built from flexible materials that can bend and deform, are attracting a lot of attention from robotics researchers ...