Soft Robotics

MassRobotics awarded prizes to university teams and showcased healthcare innovators, physical AI developers, and startups.

Nexera Robotics’ adaptive NeuraGrasp will enable the Locus Array mobile manipulator to pick many more e-commerce SKUs.

Heven AeroTech founder and CEO Bentzion Levinson explains how his startup has addressed drone navigation and communications in GPS-denied environments.

For International Women’s Day, Dr. Maja Matarić and Dr. Tania Morimoto discussed their current robotics research and student development.

Fluid robot motion is the result of design choices among five options including pneumatics and strain wave gears.

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

Figure 03 features a redesigned sensory suite and hand system, a form factor for household operation, and lower manufacturing costs.

Loomia created its tactile sensing developer kit after surveying 100 engineers as part of the NSF I-Corps program.

The ‘Tree of Robots’ from the Technical University of Munich classifies robots by sensitivity, aiming for a new safety and performance standards.

MIT CSAIL said the main barrier to affordable, flexible robotics isn’t hardware, it’s control of capability.

The winning robot of the MassRobotics Form & Function Challenge was Northeastern University’s Soft Robotic Arm Screwdriver.

The joint research team from MIT and Notre Dame created the Soft Pathfinding Robotic Observation Unit, or SPROUT.

WPI said soft robotic arms tend to be weaker, more shaky, and less precise than traditional robot arms made from rigid materials.

1X said it shares an outlook with the team at Kind Humanoid, which has applied LLMs to safe general-purpose robots.

The researchers said this technology could make it easier for doctors to detect diseases like breast cancer when they’re more treatable.

Soft Robotics divested its robotic gripper business to Schmalz for an undisclosed amount. A new spinoff, Oxipital AI, will focus on 3D vision and AI for inspection and robotic picking.

Learn how low-cost soft actuators enabled researchers to build a worm-like crawling robot.

3D printing enables novel, lightweight structures for robotics, as well as new ways to use robots in manufacturing, says Replique.

RoboGrocery uses soft robotics, sensors, and algorithms to handle a stream of unpredictable objects on a conveyor belt, said MIT CSAIL.

Ubiros has developed grippers with force-sensing capabilities to bring automation to more picking tasks, explains President Onder Ondemir.

Project CETI is using robotics, machine learning, biology, linguistics, natural language processing, and more to decode whale communications. 

TRI’s Punyo humanoid robot can manipulate objects with its whole body, giving it more flexibility when it comes to household tasks.