Inspiration from gripper project The idea for developing a better way to design joints was inspired by another project in Wood's lab: how to make a soft robotic gripper that could gently wrap around ...

Gripper systems are being used more and more in industry due to the increasing level of automation. However, they have to be designed, manufactured, assembled or adapted to the specific application.

When Unimate, the world’s first industrial robot arm, showed off its skills by assembling a breakfast of buttered toast, coffee and champagne half a century ago, it seemed that robots were on the cusp ...