Robot arms and grippers do important work every hour of every day. They’re used in production lines around the world, toiling virtually ceaselessly outside of their designated maintenance windows.

ONROBOT is introducing two grippers as end-effectors for collaborative robots (cobots) engaged in heavy-duty handling operations. Following several years of significant development, collaborative ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each robot is about 1 millimetre long and has two gripping arms. A magnetic field is used to move the robots and operate the grippers. Previous gripping bots had to be tethered to an outside ...