Measuring tape gripper. This is useful for actions like rotating objects, screwing, etc. Using this combination of abilities, the gripper can reach out to grab something like, say, a lightbulb.

Inspired by a childhood game of unspooling measuring tape, engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new type of robotic gripper using the same flexible metal strip ...

While autonomous drones like Tevel’s Flying Robots are already harvesting fruit globally, innovations like UC San Diego’s GRIP-tape gripper represent the next frontier in gentle produce handling.

An autonomous robot with a large gripper can transform a pile of boulders into huge stone walls without mortar – learning on its own how to place each irregularly-shaped stone as the next ...

The robot’s hardware was constructed in accordance with the Open Robotic Platform (ORP) rules. This included two DC motors, an UNO R4 Minima, a Bluetooth module, and an SD card.