Engineers at Saarland University recently used lightweight, shape-memory materials to create a non-pneumatic robotic gripper.

The researchers aimed to create robots that could walk directly off the 3D printer, powered by air and made from flexible, ...

The technology uses lightweight, shape memory alloys to construct novel, non-pneumatic, industrial gripper systems ... generate and later release a load-bearing vacuum. The vacuum gripper mechanism is ...

The technology uses lightweight, shape memory materials to construct novel, non-pneumatic ... The vacuum gripper mechanism is achieved by arranging bundles of ultrathin SMA wires into a circular ...

The technology uses lightweight, shape memory materials to construct novel, non-pneumatic ... The vacuum gripper mechanism is achieved by arranging bundles of ultrathin SMA wires into a circular ...

Depending on the gripping application, the Saarbrücken technology can achieve energy savings of over 90% relative to the conventional pneumatic grippers in ... The vacuum gripper mechanism is achieved ...

The grasping motion of the gripper is generated by two mechanisms: a passive pinching mechanism and a self-locking mechanism. These mechanisms allow the fingers to perform opening and closing ...