The gecko has become the inspiration for next-generation gripping mechanisms in soft robots. The gecko lizard family are known as some of the world's best climbers. There are over 5,000 species of ...

There are no garbage trucks equipped to leave the atmosphere and pick up debris floating around the Earth. But what if we could send a robot to do the job? Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

(Nanowerk News) Picking things up and putting them down is a mainstay of any kind of manufacturing, but fingers, human or robotic, are not always best for the task at hand. Researchers at the ...

ODENSE, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Danish manufacturer OnRobot today announced that its self-cleaning Gecko Gripper won the coveted Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award (IERA) at the 50th ...

(Nanowerk News) Robots generally need a gripper that adapts to three-dimensional surfaces. Such a gripper needs to be soft to adapt to a great variety of geometries, but not too soft, as it will ...

A robotic gripper inspired by the adhesive properties of gecko hands will soon be adorning robots around the world. We've written about OnRobot's Gecko Gripper before, but its commercial availability ...

A scientist grasps a floating cylinder with the robot gripper in zero-gravity airplane flight. Share Grabbing an object in space—like a piece of debris from a disabled satellite—is harder than you ...

NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins, Ph.D., next to the robot Astrobee testing the gecko gripper on the International Space Station in April 2021. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), in April 2021, ...

Space junk poses deadly hazards, but the growing amount of debris that orbit around Earth are not collected because the technologies and means used to collect trash on Earth do not work as well in ...

Picking things up and putting them down is a mainstay of any kind of manufacturing, but fingers, human or robotic, are not always best for the task at hand. Researchers at the University of ...