There have been numerous ideas floated for the best way to clean up space debris, and the latest comes from researchers at Stanford University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who have come ...

Gecko-inspired gripper does the twist to safely release delicate items By Ben Coxworth November 15, 2023 Gecko feet easily stick to surfaces without leaving any adhesive residue behind Depositphotos ...

I'm not sure when your last spacewalk was, but you probably remember it being a bit difficult to manipulate objects, what with the gloves and the microgravity and all. As such, your tools were ...

A robotic gripper inspired by the adhesive properties of gecko hands will soon be adorning robots around the world. We've written about OnRobot's Gecko Gripper before, but its commercial availability ...

Get a grip. A new robotic gripping tool based on gecko feet can grab hold of floating objects in microgravity. The grippers could one day help robots move dangerous space junk to safer orbits or climb ...

It can be a bit tricky for robots to grab onto things. Their clutches and reflexes aren’t wired as well as the human hand is, so rather than trying to replicate a human hand’s versatility, we look for ...

(Nanowerk News) Robots generally need a gripper that adapts to three-dimensional surfaces. Such a gripper needs to be soft to adapt to a great variety of geometries, but not too soft, as it will ...

A scientist grasps a floating cylinder with the robot gripper in zero-gravity airplane flight. Share Grabbing an object in space—like a piece of debris from a disabled satellite—is harder than you ...

The gecko has become the inspiration for next-generation gripping mechanisms in soft robots. The gecko lizard family are known as some of the world's best climbers. There are over 5,000 species of ...

Scientists tested their robotic gripper on NASA’s reduced gravity aircraft, known as the Weightless Wonder. (Jiang et al. / Stanford University via Science / AAAS) Sandra Bullock’s character nearly ...

Aiming to create a robotic gripper that can grasp with delicate strength, researchers combine adhesives based on gecko toes with a customized robotic hand. Across a vast array of robotic hands and ...