Johns Hopkins University's Louis Whitcomb, a professor of mechanical engineering, threw down a challenge to sixth-graders at Baltimore's Barclay Elementary/Middle School: design a claw that could ...

Flapping-wing ornithopter drones may potentially be more agile and energy-efficient than their fixed-wing counterparts, but most of them still can't loiter in one spot. A new model addresses that ...

[Alexey] wrote in to share a mechanical claw (Google Translation) he has been hard at work on for quite some time. While a lot of people will turn to some sort of 3D plastic printer such as the ...

Grabbing objects in space has always been a challenge and has generally relied on mechanical claws to do the gripping. The problem is that these claws are limited in what they can grapple. That’s why ...

CTV National News: Clearing some space John Vennavally-Rao has the story of a first-of-its-kind clean-up mission to clear out the space junk orbiting Earth.

Some of them are big, and some are small, and certainly some are rigged, which is what I’d always thought about the one that challenges you to operate by means of a lever a mechanical claw that ...