NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins, Ph.D., next to the robot Astrobee testing the gecko gripper on the International Space Station in April 2021. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), in April 2021, ...

(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 ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) Picking things up and putting them down is a mainstay of any kind of manufacturing, but fingers, human or robotic, are not always best for the task at hand. Researchers at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

ODENSE, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Danish manufacturer OnRobot today announced that its self-cleaning Gecko Gripper won the coveted Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award (IERA) at the 50th ...

NASA engineers say they've turned to nature – and to the super-sticky feet of geckos – to design robots that may some day climb around the outside of the International Space Station. Using a "gecko ...

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 ...