Cobots need grippers on their arms to grab and move things. Grippers come in different types, like air-powered, electric, vacuum and magnetic ones. Each type has its own strengths and weaknesses, and ...

Festo says its new HPSX soft gripper is designed to solve long-standing challenges in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.

EPFL scientists have integrated discarded crustacean shells into robotic devices, leveraging the strength and flexibility of ...

Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made ...

FRANKFURT—The VDMA OPC Robotics Initiative will make it easier for industrial robots to communicate with each other.

Aditya Sripada] and [Abhishek Warrier]’s TARS3D robot came from asking what it would take to make a robot with the ...

Low-temperature lead-free solders are another powerful technology to enable greener circuit assembly operations. By decreasing reflow temperatures from 250° C to temperatures as low as 175° C, EMS ...

According to the DfS insight, an instant analysis would indicate that this straightforward change could reduce PCB costs by 15 to 20% without impacting the prototype’s performance. This adjustment not ...

The subject board is usually a two- or four-layer circuit board with 12/12 lines and spaces, and often is almost destroyed by whatever catastrophic failure occurred. The application is typically an ...