Robotic hands have a tough time getting a grip on pliable objects, but it's not for lack of trying -- most make do with rigid pincers that aren't designed for precision grasping. Fortunately, if a ...

When you think of robots, rigid mechanics are likely to come to mind. But, scientists at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, a research university in Switzerland, have developed a way to give ...

A robotic gripper made from flexible ribbons can pick up objects as delicate as a dandelion to something 16,000 times heavier than itself. Most robotic grippers are specialised to perform a narrow set ...