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 ...

This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one material.

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 ...

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

Discover how a 3D printed walking robot moves without electronics using compressed gas. Read more about the innovation ...

To drive the robots to move, the team created a pneumatic oscillating circuit to control the repeated motions of soft actuators, similar to the mechanism ... such as grippers, to the robots.

Imagine a robot that can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off ...