When you reach into your pocket and grab your keys, you can tell how they're oriented, without actually seeing them. Well, an engineering team at the University of California San Diego has created a ...

Grippers have become an important part of material handling in industries ranging from electronics manufacturing to automotive assembly. In North America alone, for example, the gripper market is ...

So it's interesting to see that the next steps in the evolution of pick-and-place robotics are beginning to roll out. One such introduction comes from Festo, which has released its adaptive gripper ...