Festo says its new HPSX soft gripper is designed to solve long-standing challenges in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.

Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made ...

EPFL scientists have integrated discarded crustacean shells into robotic devices, leveraging the strength and flexibility of ...

Cobots need grippers on their arms to grab and move things. Grippers come in different types, like air-powered, electric, vacuum and magnetic ones. Each type has its own strengths and weaknesses, and ...

Explore 3D printing in robotics for custom, lightweight parts, rapid prototyping, and on-demand spare components.

( Nanowerk News) Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a ...

Artificial tendons make muscle-powered robots stronger and faster. They can last longer and work in tricky or dangerous places.

Designed for industrial, domestic and service tasks, the robot aims to address labour shortages, physically demanding work, ...

The bipedal robot expands the Humanoid portfolio, following the wheeled Alpha platform, which has completed its first ...

But MIT’s new muscle-tendon system changes that equation by bridging muscle to skeleton more efficiently. And the numbers ...