Researchers have invested heavily in improving the abilities of robots to manipulate objects. Back in September, last year, we had Nvidia unveil a new algorithm⁠—6-Dof-GraspNet⁠—that allowed robots to ...

Underwater, an octopus has an advantage when it comes to grabbing objects. Despite the watery environment, they can hold onto surfaces with ease and a surprisingly strong amount of force. This is made ...

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University of Science and Technology of China has made a fascinating development in robotics, with the octopus-inspired robotic arm led by Nikolaos Freris. It combines the dexterity of a human hand ...

One of the challenges that researchers in robotics face is creating robotic arms and gripers that can handle objects of varied sizes and shapes. Researchers at Harvard have developed a robot that can ...

Scientists have long been fascinated by the ability of an octopus to grab objects. Indeed, we have covered several octopus-inspired gripping systems over the years. But according to August Domel and ...

Reacch’s robotic arms use van der Waals forces to grip objects. Credit: Kall Morris If all goes according to plan, a robotic octopus will be floating around and grabbing objects inside the ...

In order to function safely alongside human workers, robotic arms shouldn't be hard and unyielding. An experimental new arm was designed with that fact in mind, as it mimics soft n' squishy elephant ...

Soon, a flexible octopus-like robot could be completely free of wires or internal electronics. Engineers at Rice University have unveiled a new soft robotic arm controlled by laser beams.

A robotic arm that can bend, stretch and squeeze through cluttered environments has been created by a group of researchers from Italy. Inspired by the eight arms of the octopus, the device has been ...

One day a giant robotic octopus might save your life. That’s one of the applications a team of European scientists thinks its robotic octopus could have beyond navigating underwater and grasping ...