Researchers taught a Unitree Go1 quadruped how to use its front legs to climb walls, press buttons and kick a soccer ball.
Destaco launches end-of-arm tooling line for cobots
Destaco’s cobot tooling solutions are designed for gripping, palletizing, machine tending, tool changing, and tool extension applications.
ASTM developing standard for robot end-effectors
ASTM International announced that its developing a standard based on the grasp strength of robot end-effectors.
Soft Robotics mGripAI uses simulation to train in NVIDIA Isaac Sim
Soft Robotics applies NVIDIA Isaac Sim’s synthetic data to food processing automation in efforts to improve safety and increase production.
Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid work at a ‘construction site’
With a new routine where Atlas assists at a simulated job site, Boston Dynamics engineers have pushed the humanoid one step closer to performing real-world manipulation tasks at human speed.
Soft Robotics picks up $26M
Soft Robotics brought in $26 million in the first closing of its Series C funding round to expand commercial deployment of its mGripAI.
Harvard researchers create soft, tentacle-like robot gripper
Researchers at Harvard have created a tentacle-like gripper that can grasp irregularly shaped or soft objects without damaging them.
Piab releases higher capacity piCOBOT L vacuum pump
The piCOBOT L is particularly attractive for e-commerce, logistics and warehouse applications, and assisting with lifting heavier items.
GMG develops new robot grippers with plastic plain bearings from igus
The gripper can pack manufactured components with three fingers, place them in boxes and place a layer of protective cardboard over them.
The Gripper Company launches MAXXgrip
The MAXXgrip is robot vendor independent and can be deployed on any industrial robot or cobot. The articulating fingers stabilize items during pick and place operations.
ASTM International forms group on robotic grasping and manipulation
The committee will initially develop standards for the performance of grasping-type end effectors, mobile manipulators and robotic assembly systems.
Amazon testing pinch-grasping robots for e-commerce fulfillment
Amazon said preliminary tests show a prototype pinch-grasping robot achieved a 10-fold reduction in damage on items such as books and boxes.
UW researchers create tool that designs 3D-printed grippers
The new tool can design a 3D-printable passive gripper and calculate the best path to pick up an object.
Why I’m saying no to ‘necrobotics’
Florian Pestoni says “necrobotics” is where ethics and technology must meet. Just because it can be done, it doesn’t mean we should.
Watch researchers use dead spiders as robotic grippers
A Rice University research lab manipulates dead spiders’ legs with a puff of air to turn the spider into a gripper.
MIT helps robots retrieve objects buried in a pile
Researchers at the MIT developed a system that can help robots retrieve target items from a pile of items with some RFID tags.
Soft Robotics to bring its mGripAI to new industries
Soft Robotics plans to make its mGripAI solution available for order fulfillment, sortation, decanting and kitting.
MIT CSAIL develops robotic gripper that can feel what it grabs
CSAIL’s Perceptual Science Group created touch sensors for their gripper, allowing it to feel with the same sensitivity as human skin.
Meet Denmark’s robotics companies of the year
Odense Robotics’ 300 members, made up of robot, automation and drone companies, nominated and voted for the winners.
How a box manufacturer tackled labor issues with robotics
Box manufacturer Alliora had wanted to add automation to its production lines for a while. Unfortunately, its first experience was difficult.
New robotic farm hand inoculates dairy cows
Pharm Robotics is bringing the first autonomous dairy cow inoculation solution to market, using industrial robots to inject pharmaceuticals.
Intelligent magnetic gripping revolutionizes ferrous automation applications
Festo, a Magswitch distribution partner since 2019, reports surging interest in the E-Series of intelligent magnetic grippers from Magswitch.